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Whorley et al v. Northam et al
The ACLU of Virginia joined a federal class action lawsuit as co-counsel with Charlottesville attorney Elliott Harding on behalf of 27 people who are incarcerated in Virginia prisons. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, April 8 against Gov. Ralph Northam, Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran and other state officials. It alleges that Virginia is violating the U.S. Constitution by failing to decarcerate overcrowded facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and asks that the Commonwealth be ordered to immediately decrease the number of people in custody, implement policies for social distancing, and require staff members to wear personal protection equipment.
After weeks of intense negotiations with the Office of the Attorney General, the parties reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit on May 11, 2020. The settlement agreement, which was approved by and can be enforced by the federal court, commits VDOC to review promptly those incarcerated individuals eligible for early release under the governor’s budget amendment and sets up procedures for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to consider conditional pardons for individuals with medical issues or COVID-19 related concerns. The agreement also sets up mechanisms to ensure that incarcerated individuals are receiving prompt medical treatment, that prisons are clean, sanitized, and that appropriate protective equipment is provided to both residents and staff.
Exclusive VDOC Data on COVID-19 testing and review under the Early Release Program can be found here.
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Jeff Sessions, Madison Grant, and the Gopher State
Posted on March 5, 2017 by John Jackson
I moved to Minnesota when I graduated college in nineteen-mumblemumble. Met my lovely wife there, got married there, had my first grownup job there, went to graduate school there, and I loved all of it. My godson lives there and my kids’ godmothers live there. We moved out in December 1993 but I’d move back there in an instant. The Twin Cities are awesome.
When I moved out, a quarter century ago, the Twin Cities was home to much more than Prairie Home Companion and lutefisk. By 1993, the Cities had already received several immigrant waves of Hmong from Vietnam and Laos, and Somali immigration was just beginning. Now there are tens of thousands of Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
The Alt-Right has been relatively quiet (as far as I can tell) about the Hmong. But the Somali terrify them. After all, these aren’t just Muslims, they are black Muslims! So scary! “This immigration must stop. Many of these devout Muslims do not assimilate. They agitate for jihad, and many return to Somalia…for training.” Another claims: “Somali gang members are loitering the area and committing crimes (autotheft, shootings, robberies, assaults, etc).” And, presumably because of their skin color, they cause rampant crime! This is just your typical racist nonsense except that it is typical racist nonsense trumpeted (get it?) by our President:
Here in Minnesota you have seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state, without your knowledge, without your support or approval.
He could have picked up this non-fact from any number of Alt-Right thinkers. An important point is that Somalis have entered the country legally, fully vetted, and through traditional channels. To recall a phrase: their papers are in order. Which leads many to think that the real goal of the Trump administration is to not merely stop “illegal” immigration, but to fundamentally alter who can legally immigrate into our country. The heart of the Alt-Right’s case is that the Somalis cannot “assimilate” into American culture. Whether because they are Muslim or because of biological differences, they are aliens in our midst and a danger to us.
Check out this Alt-Right scholar who posted just today (2 March 2017):
It is biology that makes today’s Scandinavian farmers in Minnesota closely resemble their Swedish and Norwegian ancestors despite 160 years of physical separation. Transporting Third Worlders to a First World setting would not substantially transform the new arrivals though these immigrants might relish the technological gadgets of their new home.
Or, as one writer on Richard Spencer’s site put it:
It is sheer folly, however, to imagine that seriously maladjusted people can be magically transformed by a ride down the road in a moving van. This is, of course, the same mentality that imagines that a native of Somalia can be metamorphosed into a blue-eyed Scandinavian by moving him to Minnesota.
Compare those quotations with this one:
There exists to-day a widespread and fatuous belief in the power of environment, as well as of education and opportunity to alter heredity, which arises from the dogma of the brotherhood of man, derived in turn from the loose thinkers of the French Revolution and their American mimics… Thus the view that the negro slave was an unfortunate cousin of the white man, deeply tanned by the tropic sun, and denied the blessings of Christianity and civilization, played no small part with the sentimentalists of the Civil War period, and it has taken us fifty years to learn that speaking English, wearing good clothes, and going to school and to church, does not transform a negro into a white man.
How far the Alt-right hasn’t come! The third quotation is from 1916. It was written by Madison Grant, America’s pioneering racist of the early twentieth century. Rich, powerful, friend of Presidents, amateur naturalist, wildlife conservationist, and, as distinguished anthropologist Jon Marks said of him, “A real fuck.” Like today’s Alt-Righters, Grant was concerned about the immigration of racial inferiors. Like these folks waiting at the famous Ellis Island:
The sharp-eyed reader will probably notice that these are all “white” people. So, what was Grant’s problem with them? Grant certainly thought that white people were better than black people, but white skin did not qualify someone as racially acceptable since “skull shape, eye color, hair color, and stature, are sufficient to enable us to differentiate clearly between the three main races of Europe.” In other words, Grant didn’t really believe in a “white race” since Europeans could be divided into Nordics, Alpines, and Mediterraneans. The blonde Nordic was the driver of civilization and founder of the country. The lesser European races were fine as laborers or underlings, but could never really become leaders or create great works of art. The immigrants that concerned Grant were from Southern and Eastern Europe, not his sort of people at all. So, while you and I see some nice Slovak women seeking entrance into the country, Grant would see racial inferiors threatening the racial purity of the country:
Grant’s fear that “The brunet Mediterranean element in the native American seems to be increasing at the expense of the blond Nordic element” lead him to champion immigration restriction. The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act established a quota system that shut off immigration from these racially inferior countries.The act was in place until 1965 when it was finally overturned.
The Alt-Right denies what every historian thinks, which is the 1924 act was racially motivated. People only think that because the “damn Jews” told them to. All of this would be of historical interest only, except that our new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is a big fan of the 1924 act and claims that the number of racial inferiors unassimilated immigrants “is about to surge far past what the situation was in 1924.” While concerns about “terrorism” are on the surface, underneath are plans to reshape the demographics of the country just as we did in 1924. The parallels are obvious and ominous. It is about immigrants who Steve Bannon and Steve Miller think cannot “assimilate” to the United States.
No one now takes Grant seriously when he wrote that “the cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is a negro; the cross between a white man and a Hindu is a Hindu; and the cross between any of the three European races and a Jew is a Jew.” Despite Grant’s stature in society, and his claim to rely on cutting edge scientific knowledge, we all now recognize that this is nonsense. Fewer of us recognize that most of what Trump says about immigration (or immigrants) is easily shown to be erroneous. Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes according to forty years of research. In Minnesota, contrary to the myths of the Alt-Right, the influx of Somali refugees coincided with a decrease in violent crime.
When Trump announced his disastrous Muslim ban, my own U.S. Representative, Rob Wittman, fully supported it because “if it saves the life of one innocent American, then it was worth it.” Wittman, and others following this calculation simply ignore that refugees are fleeing war, famine, and genocide. The 1924 Act meant that after Hitler’s rise to power, “the one country that might have provided a model of moral and ethical behavior in protecting Jewish refugees instead set an example for other potential countries of refuge to close their borders.” The Muslim ban sets a similar example and is a matter of life and death for many refugees. Condemning thousands to death and misery is apparently worth it if it “saves the life of one innocent American.” This is the way a racist talks.
When I tell people that I would love to move back to Minnesota, they sometimes react with horror: “It gets so cold there!” Yes, I reply, it does. The cold keeps the riff-raff out. Which is why the Somalis can live there peaceably. And why Jeff Sessions is from Alabama.
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Tell Me More Lies
Alison Chabloz
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Gleason’s Flat Earth
Force the Lie: the Earth is Flat !
December 28, 2015 January 1, 2016 Alison Chabloz8 Comments
When we lose the power to think for ourselves, we lose our humanity. The year 2015 began with #JeSuisCharlie, saw Jeremy Corbyn elected as Leader of the Opposition in the UK and ended with a vote to bomb Syria after another shooting in Paris.
As for myself I played somewhere in the region of 150 paid gigs in 15 different countries– including my own music at the Edinburgh Fringe – plus another 50 or so pub sessions. The Irish folk gigs provided Christmas spirit with, again, a wealth of new material and we’re already booked in for two more gigs in the New Year, complete with plenty of wassailing.
Nürnberg & Flat Earth
Imperceptibly, the lengthening days point towards rebirth. Revisionism is a rocky road, but its path is brightly lit. In one of Vincent Reynouard’s recent videos, I noticed a shot of the official emblem used by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal: The Scales of Justice superimposed over a Gleason’s 1892 map of Flat Earth – similar to the map on the UN logo (which, incidentally, was approved in 1946) – without the 33 circular segments.
According to some observers, 2016 will be the year when Flat Earth Theory explodes – online, at least. The figures are quite extraordinary and confirm my observation that #FlatEarth would be the most spectacular online conspiracy phenomenon I’ve seen so far…
Do I believe in a Flat Earth? I don’t know. The evidence suggesting that’s the case is nevertheless quite convincing. Even more convincing is that Nuremberg was merely a continuation of war propaganda, and that neither an order to exterminate the Jews nor homicidal gas chambers ever existed: all easily verified fact.
Will France be obliged to add ‘Oblate Spheroid Denial’ to the Gayssot law, I wonder?
An absurd law
Vincent Reynourd had to flee France because of the Gayssot law and now is settled in Greater London. He lost both his teaching posts as well as his family, also spending time in prison for his beliefs. His videos are clear and precise and all the evidence he presents can be referenced in libraries and documentation centres.
Presently, Reynouard is again in the news after his lawyer succeeded in obtaining a hearing of the French Constitutional Board on the Gayssot law. Reynouard’s lawyer explained in a previous clip that because the Gayssot law resides on the outcome of another trial – in this case, Nuremberg – its legality is questionable under the French constitution, especially with regard to equality.
For example, there is currently no law which prohibits the ‘denial’ of other genocides or crimes against humanity. Moreover, in order for the Nuremberg trial to be revised, the London Agreement signed by France, UK, US and Russia in 1945 would have to be nullified.
Like their comrades at the ECHR in Strasbourg and at the UN, Zio-con lawmakers do not seem to have the interests of their own countries’ citizens at heart. According to Reynouard and backed up by the official transcription of the hearing, in order to give new powers to the Gayssot law, members of the Constitutional Board would be claiming that Hitler’s supposed order to exterminate the Jews was in fact inspired by the Armenian genocide.
Blow me down! The French Constitutional Board tells porkies! There is no proof to back up the claim Hitler gave any such order – as already confirmed in court during the cases of Zündel, Irving and others. Yet here we have some of the most highly-placed notables in France once again making a mockery of liberté, égalité, fraternité.
At 87 years young, Robert Faurisson is still being hounded by the usual suspects aka The Authorities with another six pending court cases. Do the same world leaders who marched down the Champs Elysées in support of freedom of expression last January also support punishment via the courts of such men – as well as the incarceration of Vincent Reynouard?
Broadcasters of mainstream ideas are the same people who create fictional entertainment. Think about it: our fake monetary system; endless wars which create debt in our so-called secular liberal western democracies; aeroplanes which disappear from radar in the southern hemisphere; ever taller sky-scrapers with no floors posed as radio masts? Can governments be trusted to tell us the truth about anything?
Force the line and end the lie
A couple of days ago, I tweeted my first Twitter poll: amusing and perhaps somewhat frivolous… Nevertheless, almost a third of answers came from people who said the Earth was flat or who said they didn’t know.
The results show that two-thirds believe Copernicus’ spinning ball theory. Only seven percent chose ‘don’t know’ and I repeat – that’s my position. Ok, so maybe I’m sitting on the fence here (above a horizon which stretches all the way to the Irish sea over a curvature of 20cm per square kilometre!), but I hope this year will see the predicted massive increase in interest in Flat Earth theory as well as a simple-to-execute scientific experiment such as Brian Mullin’s Force The Line.
Who knows? NASA doesn’t seem to… The more I delve, the more fascinating it becomes and the more evidence is unearthed. I’d love it to be true just to see the expression on Richard Dawkins’ and Brian Cox’ faces. Trolls and shills can laugh and spout ad hominem all they like – anonymously, of course. Their little dance is easy to spot. Bless.
Dear readers, here’s wishing you all a serene and enlightened 2016. A special thank you to my family and friends, to my supporters within the Revisionist movement and, last but not least, to my trolls who, in their own inimitable way, have unwittingly helped to share truth with an ever wider audience.
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Born in Chaos Part 17
"You're kidding... right?" Duo asked in disbelief as he stared up at the sheer rock face. "We have to climb that?!?"
Trill glared at the young thief. "I said we did, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but... how? There's nothing the even grab hold of." Duo pointed out.
"Essylt."
The silver haired elf walked forward and looked up at the cliff. With a glance at her mate she lay both her palms flat on the rock and closed her eyes. Within a few moments he her hands began to give off a soft green glow that traveled slowly up the solid stone, then she leaned in and pressed her cheek to the rough surface. Sweat broke out along her forehead as she gasped.
Trill shot out an arm to stop Quatre from rushing forward. "Do not touch her!" He snapped.
"She's in pain!" The healer protested.
"No." The elf repeated firmly.
Trowa reached out and drew the blonde back to him, his eyes telling Quatre to listen to the man.
The group watched as the glow intensified and then started to withdraw, leaving small steps in it's wake, enough for them to be able to hold onto and climb with. As the glow faded away completely, Essylt stepped back and swayed.
Trill put an arm around her shoulders. "We'll rest here for a while." He said looking back at the group.
"No!" She cried pushing away from him. "We have to keep going! I'll be alright."
"Essylt..."
"Trill... something follows us. I've sensed it several times now. If we stop, it will catch us."
"Why hasn't any of us noticed it?" Milliardo asked.
"I don't know, unless it knows to hide it's presence from you."
"I'll go first." Trill spoke up. "When I reach the top I will secure a rope for the rest of you."
"I don't understand." Quatre said to his teacher as they watched the elven man climb the rock face. "What happened to her?"
"She can alter the shape of anything related to the earth." The mage explained. "But it's a hard power to use... it wears the bearer down. Basically, she's exhausted, but not harmed.
Trill reached the top and threw a rope down to the rest of the group. Heero climbed next and then he and the elven man assisted Essylt in climbing after him. After she reached the top, they had Milliardo go up after her, then Duo. After him, the blonde healer, followed by Trowa and leaving Wufei to climb the last.
Trowa had just pulled himself over the edge when he heard Quatre gasp.
"There's something moving out there."
Trowa drew himself to his knees and looked in the direction the blonde gestured, seeing something shifting in the trees below them. Something large and moving swiftly.
"Wufei!" Milliardo leaned over the edge. "Hurry! There's something coming."
The black haired boy grabbed the rope, looked out into the trees and then up at the assembled group above him. Something flickered in his eyes as a group of men burst from the tree line and he turned to meet them.
"Wufei!" Duo yelled as fire burst from the boy's fingers and he drove the advancing men backwards.
"You need to close off the steps!" He yelled up at them. "If you don't they will follow you!"
"Wufei! You need to get up here!"
"Just do it!! I'll find you some other way!" He crouched against the rock and encircled himself with a fan of flames that raced forward and ignited the two men closest to him.
Essylt knelt on the ground with Trill holding her up and sharing his strength with her. As the wall began to glow, Milliardo rushed forward.
"NO!! You can't leave him behind!" Already he could feel the resounding effects of the spell he had cast.
Duo stood at the edge of the cliff and shot streaks of light into the group of men, his eyes lighting with an almost perverse joy as he heard the agonized screams from the men he hit.
Trill stood with his mate in his arms. "Back!! Now!!" He yelled. "There will be more... and they are bound to have a way to reach us! We need to reach the Dragon's Teeth... they can't follow us there!"
Trowa and Quatre grabbed Milliardo's arm and pulled him away, the three of them running after Trill.
Duo yelled angrily, striking out with his light as hands grabbed him, dragging him away from the edge. "NO! I can help him!!"
"There's nothing you can do now." Heero told him. "We have to get away from here."
"We can't just leave him!!!" The chestnut haired thief yelled, striking out at Heero.
With a low growl the brunette slammed his fist into Duo's jaw, catching him as he fell. Tossing the slender boy over his shoulder he turned and followed the rest of the group.
Below them the black haired fire child put up a fierce fight, holding the soldiers at bay with his flame. He could feel exhaustion creeping along his limbs as he threw out his hand, sending streaks of fire racing into the men.
Not much left... I'm not used to using my power like this. He had started gathering the remnants of his strength for one last assault when the soldiers suddenly stopped advancing and started to move back.
Wufei dropped his hands and leaned against the wall, watching the men part to reveal a tall form standing in their midst. As the man strode forward the boy's eyes widened in recognition his heart slamming against his chest. He'd seen the man in dreams....
Tall, slender but muscular, his ginger colored hair swept back from his face, blue eyes that seemed to bore into your very soul. He cut a formidable figure as he came to a stop in front of Wufei, his gaze sweeping over the boy.
With a smile that could paralyze, he held out his hand. "Child of shadow... we have finally found you."
"We have to go back." The platinum haired mage stated firmly.
Trill looked up from his mate. "We cannot. That was an entire army... there's no way we can stand against them."
"I had cast a spell on him... linking us... I can't sense him anymore." Milliardo sighed, sliding down a rock to sit on the ground.
"You know as well as I what that means!" Trill snapped.
"I suppose I do." The mage replied dully. "I'd just prefer to see it with my own eyes."
"And you'd be joining him."
Milliardo didn't respond, his cold blue eyes staring out from the jagged mountains that they had taken refuge in.
"Who were they?" Trowa asked quietly.
"Sanq soldiers." Heero replied.
"My sister's army." Milliardo added flatly.
Quatre looked up from tending Duo's jaw to stare wide-eyed at his teacher.
"A crown wrapped in shadows..." the healer whispered.
"Now we know what it meant." The mage stated. "It seems that the dark has gotten to the Sanq Queen, now she seeks to destroy us where once she aided us."
Heero scowled darkly. "I need to return to the kingdom."
"And do what?" Milliardo snapped. "Your vow would mean nothing to her now. If their control is this strong, she'd have you killed on sight."
"I'm sworn to protect her!"
"The best way you can aid her now is to help rescue the guardian." Trill pointed out. "Only that can break the hold they have on her."
"But, how?" Trowa asked. "We've lost one of our party."
"Somehow you have to figure out a way." Essylt spoke up weakly, struggling to sit. "You cannot stop!!"
The group looked at each other before Quatre finally spoke. "What do we do next?"
"Within these mountains is a series of caves... each one hold a talisman... each talisman must be retrieved." Trill explained. "While we are in these mountains, we must all stick together. Although we can safely enter... leaving is something different. There are creatures the like you've never seen here. They must be guarded against."
Quatre sat back from Duo and wiped his brow. "We should be able to get going in a few hours. She," he nodded at Essylt. "needs to rest and recover her strength and Duo will be unconscious for a while." He glanced at Heero and Trowa knelt beside him. "Did you have to hit him so hard?"
Heero scowled. "You'd rather I left him behind too?"
"No! But you broke his jaw! Do you have any idea how hard it is to mend bone correctly?"
The cobalt eyed boy snorted. "Maybe we can hope you didn't get it right and then we'd have some quiet!" At the healer's gasp he added. "He shouldn't have been stupid enough to try to attack me. He's lucky I didn't kill him!"
The blonde jumped to his feet, his blue eyes blazing. "You wouldn't have cared either... would you?" He snapped.
"Not really." Heero didn't even look up at him.
"What has he done that's so bad? Why do you treat him this way?" Quatre cried.
Heero just set his sword aside and crossed his arms, refusing to answer.
Trowa lay a hand on his shoulder and he shook it off, something dark and unfamiliar welling up inside him.
"Don't you realize that the two of you could very well destroy us?!?!"
"Quatre!!" Milliardo spoke sharply, feeling something different in the healer's anger.
Trowa grabbed his arm and jerked, pain knifing through his body like an electric shock, but he refused to let go. Gritting his teeth against the pain, he called out to the blonde.
The sound of agony in the brunette's voice called the healer back from his rage. He blinked and then fell away from Trowa. "Oh... gods.... what...."
"It seems that the healer has finally tapped into the rest of his power." Essylt commented from where she still leaned against Trill.
When Milliardo looked at her in question, Trill spoke up. "A true healer can be a double edged sword. The ability to heal can be returned and with a touch they can shatter bone... burst organs... there are very few healers that manage to find this side of their power."
Quatre backed away from the group, his eyes huge. "I... I could have killed...." He gasped.
Trowa's hand shot out and he pulled the blonde back, folding him into the protective circle of his arms, not caring who saw or what they thought. "You didn't... you stopped."
"I was so angry... I felt like I was losing control of myself." The healer shivered.
"You must guard this side of your power carefully." Essylt told him. "It can be very hard to control."
Quatre nodded silently already making a silent vow to himself to never release this thing again... somehow... he'd figure out how to block it.
"We need to rest." Trill said quietly. "Tomorrow, we start into the heart of the Dragon's Teeth and seek the first talisman."
As the group settled, Milliardo leaned his head against the rock and stared into the darkness... seeking. He knew that the loss of contact usually meant the other person had perished... but, somehow... he had a feeling that this wasn't the case with Wufei.
He was out there, somewhere... and the shadows had him...
*cough* I borrowed this name from the Terry Brooks "Shannara" series....it just...worked....they were exactly the perfect place to hide the talismans ^_^;;;
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Computer-based driving test in Delhi soon
March 4, 2017 March 3, 2017 by shameen
New Delhi: Soon Delhiites will have to take computer-based driving test to get a driver’s licence, a move that aims to bring an end to human interface and eradicate alleged corruption from the regional transport offices.
Transport Minister Satyendar Jain said that he has directed the (transport) department to work on the idea so that there is no human interface at the RTOs.
The move is intended to eradicate alleged corruption from the regional transport offices (RTO).
“In Delhi, all driving test should be through computer so that there is no human interface at the RTOs. I have directed transport department to work on it,” Jain said while addressing a gathering.
However, the minister did not divulge details, but said that while sitting in a car, computer will automatically judge applicant’s driving skills during the test.
In India, there is a centre where such test is conducted, he also said.
Earlier this month, Jain had said that the Delhi government was mulling to authorise education institutes to issue learner’s driving licences to students by conducting the test online.
“Planning to authorise educational institutions to issue Learner’s Driving licence to the students following online test. Give suggestions for reforms(sic),” Jain had tweeted on February 16.
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Small Town Scandal (Taming The Tulanes Book 1)
byKay Lyons
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Tulanes of Beauty Book #1 - Garret and Darcy
How did a pregnant single woman from Miami, find herself in a car wreck on a snowy Tennessee country road?
And what of her rescuer? An overworked hospital administrator in a committed relationship, his whole future mapped out. Why does he feel such an attraction to this woman?
The small mountain town of Beauty is the setting for this first story in the series about the Tulane family.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2019
Garrett rescues a very pregnant Darcy in a snow storm and ends up taking her home after she has a check up and letting her stay in his house. There's just something about her he can't resist even though he's supposed to be getting engaged but keeps putting off asking. Their friendship develops just as his relationship with Jess is strained. Things come to a head when the baby is being born with Darcy trying to be good and pushing Garrett away.
val brim
4.0 out of 5 stars Romantic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2020
This book is very romantic it tells a story of love and how when you think everything is wrong it can change in an instant
Well written with funny bits in life can change but you have to want it and see it it's out there
kazw
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2020
Brilliant book well written and a great cast of characters loved this book couldn't put it down superb will read more from this author
Miss Niss
4.0 out of 5 stars 4 star
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2021
Usual misconception in romance books
Does he love me or not , turns out he did
Lynne Dawkins
5.0 out of 5 stars this is a nice romantic story well worth a read
I enjoyed this book it was a nice romance and I would recommend it to other people
Gintaras Auris
4.0 out of 5 stars not bad！！
Sue's Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Small town scandal? Hardly! There's nothing scandalous in this super sweet story. Two syrupy stars.
Reviewed in the United States on 4 November 2019
The cover says, "Life in a small town is never boring," but there's plenty of boring stuff--and scarcely a whiff of scandal--in this super sweet story. "Small Town Sweetness" would've been a better title. I'm a Kay Lyons fan (I loved Brody's Redemption!) but I wasted my time reading this one.
(Spoiler alert!)
Here's the plot. Garret Tulane--a handsome attorney and hospital administrator--rescues Darcy (who's very pregnant and alone) when she wrecks her car in a snowstorm on her way to Indiana. Garret is such a sweet guy, first taking her to the hospital to be examined and then to his house, since all of the motels are full (naturally).
The snowstorm confines them together for a few days--a possible whiff of scandal--but Garret's brother also lives there, so what's the big deal? Nothing happens between them, though she does give Garret a massage (she's an aromatherapist). When the storm clears, Garret takes Darcy to live with his sweet grandmother until her damaged car can be repaired, which takes several weeks.
Garret is almost engaged to beautiful, sweet Jocelyn, but his growing attraction to Darcy makes him reluctant to pop the question. Meanwhile, his best friend, Tobias, makes a move on Jocelyn (he even crawls through her bedroom window, for Pete's sake!). I swear, these folks behave like teenagers much of the time. This silliness goes on for a while, as Jocelyn gradually falls in love with Tobias and Darcy falls in love with Garret. It's mildly interesting but hardly scandalous.
Will Garret be furious with Tobias for stealing Jocelyn? Heck, no! This sweet guy doesn't have an angry bone in his body, and besides, he's really in love with Darcy. The predictable ending is oh-so-sweet. Darcy has a beautiful baby girl and marries Garret in a perfect wedding attended by all of his loving relatives. Garret and Tobias open a law firm together, and they all live Happily Ever After.
The book is definitely sweet and clean, with no swearing and no sex (except for a few kisses). If you don't mind a boring, predictable plot, this might be worth your while. I won't be reading more of this series, because these sweet Tulanes don't need taming!
Just one final complaint: The cover is awful. The woman looks considerably older than Darcy's twenty-five years, with hair that doesn't resemble Darcy's "riot of soft blond curls." I almost passed on the book because of the cover. Now I wish I had. Two stars overall.
Guy Reviews Romance and More
4.0 out of 5 stars Not that scandalous except in the mind of the beholder, just a ton of self-denial
Reviewed in the United States on 11 November 2019
Darcy got pregnant by a loser, and she headed toward her flakey mother (who's always chasing after a boyfriend) who promised to help. On the way there, her car slid off the road in a snow storm, and she was rescued by Garrett, attorney and hospital administrator, who has a steady girlfriend Rachel, who is creating her own art studio. With no hotel room available and snow storm not letting up, Garrett offered up his guest room. But his generosity was viewed as scandalous by the small town, esp. when the hospital owner wants his daughter Rachel (Garrett's girlfriend) married ASAP. What Garrett didn't know is his best friend and fellow lawyer Tobias, a guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", has the hots for Rachel, despite her father's hostility. But he can't betray his best friend... Or is that really betrayal, when it's clear (to Tobias) that Rachel and Garrett were never in love?
Wow, the self-denial is thick in this book. It seems the ONLY one who's honest about his/her own feelings is Tobias (and Garrett's grandma, but she's not the major character). He wants Rachel. Rachel thought she's in love with Garrett, even though she just wants independence from her overbearing "women should be married" father. Garrett thought he's in love with Rachel, but it's more friendship than love, not to mention his boss (and her father) keeps threatening him with his job or his brother's job (who's a surgeon in the hospital) if he doesn't marry his daughter ASAP. Even Darcy wasn't sure what she wanted. She doesn't want to disrupt Garrett's life, but she's involved nonetheless. Add Garrett's sweet but hard grandma, and Darcy's mother flaking out, and you have the darkest hour where Garrett had to make a decision before Darcy tries to leave, despite late-term pregnancy. If you can look past the ton of self-denial ("I'm not in love with...") the book is actually quite good. Though the evil dad's attitude was never explained nor karma applied.
5.0 out of 5 stars A good one
Reviewed in the United States on 10 September 2020
I didn't want to put it down. The plot is not unusual or romances, nor are the characters. But, it is unusually well written. I didn't want to do anything until I finished it
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SEV: Recovery does not mean a reduction of unemployment
By Spiros Sideris/ Published on: 01/04/2016
Athens, April 1, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency
By Spiros Sideris
“The completion of the first evaluation and the rapid implementation of the program is an one-way path, but not the only condition to get the country out of the biggest crisis in its history in peacetime”, the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) says in the weekly newsletter for the economy, emphasizing further that, any recovery achieved, won’t be followed in the initial stages at least, by a corresponding increase in employment.
“In any case, in the initial stages of recovery is not expected a rapid decline in unemployment. Employment growth will not come from simply reinstating those who lost their jobs so far, but mainly by the creation of new jobs, new activities and new skills, even on new geographic areas. What’s needed therefore are public employees retraining programs, widely associated with employment in dynamic sectors of the economy and not with fictitious employment offer in the public sector or subsidized temporary jobs with no future and perspective. Otherwise, unemployment will continue to be maintained at high levels, exacerbating the economic and political impasse”, is stressed in the statement of SEV.
The weekly bulletin of SEV reiterated the need for rapid implementation of the program, but stressed that “the policy mix that seems to be promoted within the framework of implementation of the program will have severe recessionary effects and counteract other positive structural effects on the business environment”.
Regarding foreign investment, SEV notes that the rumored increase in taxation of dividends undermines the attraction of foreign investment. “Foreigners who invest in Greece, seek partnerships with Greeks, but reasonably wish for Greek partners to contribute capital to joint investments. How, though, can this be done when an increase of the tax on dividends will penalize the holding of share capital only to the Greek, while the foreigner is generally subject to more favorable tax treatment in his country?”, Wonders the Association.
It adds, however, that the tax rates, within reasonable limits, were never the main reason was never for which international capital traditionally avoids to invest in the country directly, but rather it is the lack of a transparent, stable, reasonable and uniform application of the institutional framework, which supports fair competition.
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Nexus program isn’t going anywhere says Dave Burke head of the Nexus program
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Android Silver rumour which a number of sites have been reporting will replace the Nexus program. But so far, Google had not responded to the rumours. Overnight, ReadWrite spoke to the one person who could clear up the speculation, and clear it up he did – the Nexus program is not going anywhere.
Dave Burke, the head of Android engineering and the Nexus program at Google, is that man. He understandably wouldn’t actually comment on Android Silver, although the way he worded it, pretty much confirmed it. Regarding Android Silver, Mr Burke said
Android Silver is not something that we are commenting on right now
He further elaborated about the Android Silver program and the rumours surrounding it
So, where does that leave Nexus? Well, Android developers at Google still need something to develop code on. This is what the Nexus program is for, and it’s also for external developers. Speaking about the internal use case for Nexus phones, he said
When Google’s engineers write the open source code for new versions of Android, another team is also designing a Nexus device designed to take best advantage of Android’s new features. The two development processes go hand-in-hand, and that’s not going to change any time soon.
When we are working, there are sort of two outputs. We’re building a Nexus device and we’re building the open source code. There is no way you can build the open source code without the phone or tablet or whatever you are building. You have to live and breathe the code you are developing.
You can’t build a platform in the abstract, you have to build a device (or devices). So, I don’t think can can or will ever go away. And then, I think Nexus is also interesting in that it is a way of us explaining how we think Android should run. It is a statement, almost a statement of purity in some respects. I don’t see why we would ever turn away from that, it wouldn’t make sense.
It’s good news for Nexus fans – yes, me. This also adds further weight to our tip from a source within Google who just last week advised that a new Nexus phone is definitely in the works.
I have actually have been personally feeling the Android Silver program had been overblown for sometime. I addressed this in a comment on reddit a couple of days ago, in response to a question about the rumoured end of the Nexus line. I wrote :
My personal feeling is that the Nexus line isn’t coming to an end. The Android Silver idea appears to me to be destined to not replace the Nexus line but the Google Play edition devices, which are at the moment going in and out of stock faster than a Spaniards bed springs on his wedding night.
Google Play edition devices have limited availability, many US residents who CAN access them don’t. This could be because they don’t even know they’re available to purchase, bringing them into carrier or retail stores in an Android Silver program would give them much larger visibility. Google never talks sales figures and because they purchase stock of the devices to sell in Google Play, so therefore as the customer is Google, neither does Samsung, HTC, Sony, Motorola or LG – the manufacturers behind Google Play editions.
The other side of the argument is that reporting on Android Silver has been very US focused. Many reporters have not thought about how far reaching the Nexus line is outside the US.
The Android Silver program reads as a Google Play edition writ large. But we know how quickly Google gets services and hardware out to the rest of the world – they don’t, not quickly. The reports of Android Silver taking over the Nexus line has come primarily from US media, a group who have free and easy access to the full gamut of Google hardware as well as services. Coverage of Android Silver has not been truly indicative of a global focus.
The Nexus 5 is now sold in 23 countries world-wide. The Nexus 7 WiFi is also sold in all these countries, with the LTE version sold in 12 of those countries, while 8 had access to the Nexus 10 when it went on-sale. Not a single one of those countries outside the US has access to Google Play edition devices, this leads to a very big question. Can Google work out deals with retailers and carriers in those 23 countries in order to maintain continuity for people wanting stock Android devices?
The Nexus phone and tablet line will continue. There’s rumours of the Nexus 6 already, no matter how tenuous you believe the rumours to be. Google itself, by way of Patrick Pichette, Chief Financial Officer acknowledged in their Q4 earnings call that Play Hardware sales, including Nexus were strong :
“Play hardware sales drove a big chunk of quarter-over-quarter growth. Nexus 5 was very strong for us, and the Chromecast was a best seller all quarter”
We know that Google kills off under-performing products, but from this admission, it seems that Hardware sales from Nexus is strong, so why would Google kill it?
My personal feeling is that the Nexus line will continue. The Android Silver line will be brought in to replace the Google Play edition devices at retailers in the US. Depending on the success or failure of Android Silver in the US market, it may roll out further.
Where do you stand on Android Silver and the Nexus line?
Source: ReadWrite.
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Well I for one certainly hope the Nexus line lives on. When I buy a device it’s stock Android or it’s nothing. The Nexus line is user experience nirvana and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Joshua Hill
If the nexus 6 is a 5.5″ phone and Google slashes $100 AU of Nexus 5’s I’ll buy one to really try out a 5″ phone. Recently got a z1 compact because I think 5″ is to big for a phone.
geoff fieldew
Long live Nexus!
JeniSkunk
A minor line of thinking occurs to me.
If the GPE line is to be become Android Silver, would the Nexus line then possibly become Android Gold?
Reply to JeniSkunk
No, because from what has been rumoured, the Android ‘Silver’ devices will be the premium devices, not the Nexus line.
In that case, Nexus should be bronze. Which makes sense seeing as some parts of the Nexus are quite low quality and the software is infused with bugs on release.
The manufacturers wouldn’t stand for that, the implication that Google’s cheaper device is also better than their more expensive options. Even if to a lot of users that is the reality I can’t see Google organising/advertising their products that way.
That’s good to hear, and that was a nice reddit post, Daniel.
You made some great points; GPE only available in the US, killing Nexus off would mean they have to secure Silver devices to 23 countries etc. Makes more sense to kill off GPE for Silver in the US and continue on with Nexus for the rest of the world.
I still like the idea of Nexus. High-specced phone for a reasonable price. Hope it doesn’t die off.
vijay alapati
a happy nexus5 owner since i can now dream of nexus 6 🙂
Milty C
Reply to vijay alapati
Me too. I was just thinking the other day what a great phone the nexus 5 is, it would be a shame to loose this range.
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Gillard And Abbott Attend Australia Day Citizenship Ceremonies
The Prime Minister and Opposition Leader attended citizenship ceremonies as part of the 2013 celebrations of Australia Day.
Julia Gillard spoke and presented citizenship certificates at a ceremony in Canberra. Amongst others, she welcomed the actor Miriam Margolyes as an Australian citizen. [Read more…]
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Morrison argues that Australia’s nationalism “is divorced from ethnicity, race and religion, disarming what is often a volatile and potentially negative combination”.
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The Howard government reoriented multiculturalism, says Morrison. It sought “to bring a greater focus on what communities had in common as Australians”, adopting a policy that “deliberately set out to explicitly recognize the supremacy of Australian values, the primacy of the English language, respect for existing institutions and adherence to the rule of law”. [Read more…]
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Airbus unveils its first stage re-useability concept
June 5, 2015 2:32 pm Robert Zimmerman
The competition heats up: Airbus unveiled today its prototype design to recover and reuse the engines and avionics of its Ariane rockets.
Herve Gilibert, technical director for Airbus’ Space Systems division, said the Adeline propulsion unit — engine and avionics — is where lies most of the value of the first stage. The Airbus team concluded that SpaceX’s design of returning the full stage to Earth could be simplified by separating the propulsion bay from the rest of the stage, protecting the motor on reentry and, using the winglets and turbofans, return horizontally to a conventional air strip. “We are using an aerodynamic shield so that the motor is not subjected to such high stress on reentry,” Gilibert said. “We need very little fuel for the turbofans and the performance penalty we pay for the Ariane 6 launcher is far less than the 30 percent or more performance penalty that SpaceX pays for the reusable Falcon 9 first stage.
Gee, for decades Arianespace and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and everyone else in the launch industry insisted it made no economic sense to try to recover and reuse the first stage of their rockets. Then SpaceX comes along and makes an effort to do so, without as yet even coming close, and suddenly everyone agrees it is economically essential to do it as well.
Isn’t competition wonderful?
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How the contenders stack up for WRC 2020's Monza endgame
Nick Garton
And so here we are: the final installment is upon us and the 2020 World Rally Championship decider is shaping up like the climax of The Avengers. Here's how we go into the Endgame.
After the rest of the field has played its part through the higgledy-piggledy season so far, we head to Monza with our final four contenders for glory. We have a boy next door with special powers, a bespectacled wisecracking genius, a brooding outsider and a colossus who already has six precious gems tucked away in his armoury.
Elfyn Evans, Scott Martin, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota Yaris WRC
Elfyn Evans, Scott Martin, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota Yaris WRCMcKlein / Motorsport Images
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In fairness, Elfyn 'Spider-Man' Evans already has one hand on the trophy and it would be a brave soul who might bet against him getting both on it at the finish.
Evans has finished no lower than fourth this year. His position atop the table comes in no small part from being the only front-runner to have finished every round of the season so far - he's also the only driver to win more than one rally this year, in Sweden and Sardinia - and another fourth place in Monza would seal the deal.
There's no need to go crazy, and with only four cars capable of finishing in front of him under normal circumstances (and one of them being a Toyota team-mate, Kalle Rovanpera, who is out of the title fight), that relieves a little pressure.
Sébastien Ogier, Julien Ingrassia, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota Yaris WRC
Sébastien Ogier, Julien Ingrassia, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota Yaris WRCToyota Racing
It's the other Toyota that Evans will be focused on: that of the six-time champion, Thanos himself, Sebastien Ogier, sitting 14 points in arrears with 30 points left on the table.
The 2020 season was supposed to be a swansong for this colossus of the post-Loeb WRC. At the start of the year he had his mission laid out to win one more title with one more manufacturer, added to those won with Volkswagen and M-Sport, before hanging up his helmet.
Given the trials and tribulations brought about by COVID-19, Ogier has deferred his pipe and slippers for another year in order to take another tilt at what will hopefully be a more traditional season in 2021 - but does this mean that he will be taking it easy in Monza? Not a bit of it. Even though Ogier has remarked that the reduced number of rallies will mean the 2020 title means less than in previous years, you can expect his Yaris to be standing on its doorhandles, because there isn't a more competitive man in motorsport.
Thierry Neuville, Nicolas Gilsoul, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC
Thierry Neuville, Nicolas Gilsoul, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRCFabien Dufour / Hyundai Motorsport
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If there's a party with rally cars going on, then usually you will find the WRC's answer to Tony Stark in the thick of it: Thierry Neuville. The Belgian is no stranger to Monza's event, with second place finishes in 2015 and 2019.Like his title rival Evans, however, Ogier lacks any prior experience of what little tricks Monza has up its sleeve for the unwary. The business-like Frenchman tends to wrap up the WRC season and head off until Monte for some well-earned rest, rather than join in the fun and games of close season bunfights such as Monza's traditionally celebrity-heavy event.
Neuville has been the fastest man in the WRC this year, setting more fastest stage times than Evans and Ogier combined. He's entertained us all by tap-dancing his Hyundai i20 to the very limit and yet, just like Iron Man, there have been some body blows delivered to his chances of celebrating a happy conclusion to the story.
A disastrous run of luck through Sweden (at sea on set-up), Mexico (electrical failure), and Estonia (suspension damage), have left him with only the faint hope of Evans retiring and Ogier somehow being able to finish no higher than fourth.
One way or another, it seems that Neuville's run of five consecutive runner-up places in the WRC standings is likely to come to an end, and it will take a miracle for him to make that a first championship win rather than battling team-mate Ott Tanak for the bronze.
Ott Tänak, Martin Järveoja, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC
Ott Tänak, Martin Järveoja, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRCMcKlein / Motorsport Images
And so we come to Tanak. He's still mathematically in the hunt, but the permutations basically require him to win the rally and the Power Stage while the other three contenders all drop out.
His season began with that leap into the void off the side of the Alps, which cost him seat time in his new surroundings at Hyundai. Things improved rapidly thereafter, getting his eye in through Sweden and Mexico and looking set to snatch victory at any moment - until we all had to stay at home.
His euphoric victory at home in Estonia brought the WRC back to life with considerable style, but disappointment followed in Turkey (steering), and Italy (suspension), that left his chances of retaining his 2019 drivers' title all-but gone.
In the role of Hawkeye among our superhero final four, he has a decisive part to play in the final encounter. But there's quite a high likelihood that in the calm after the storm, he will counting the cost of what it took to get us all here and looking forward to better days ahead.
Whatever the outcome of the all-star event, there are still all those supporting characters who have a part to play.
Dani Sordo, Carlos Del Barrio, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC
Dani Sordo, Carlos Del Barrio, Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 Coupe WRCMcKlein / Motorsport Images
Dani Sordo gets another run in the third Hyundai at an event which he knows well, having two overall wins, two class wins and a second place to his credit. Having delivered a decisive victory in Sardinia towards retaining the manufacturers' crown, the Spaniard is on a high with his boss's backing to do all that he can to bring the silverware back to Seoul.
Rovanpera in the third Toyota has a role to play in queering the pitch of the Hyundais while equally keeping out of the way of his team-mates in the final showdown. It's a big job for young shoulders, but he has ample pace and confidence to be a major factor.
And finally we have M-Sport, the Guardians of the Galaxy who travel to the very ends of the universe to keep the sport going from the grassroots to the WRC itself. Finnish stars Esapekka Lappi and Teemu Suninen have shown flashes of supreme pace this year when they do not allow their heads to drop and the random factor of Monza's event could suit them. Gus Greensmith will be out of his comfort zone, but nobody will be urging themselves onward with the same gusto as the young Englishman.
Esapekka Lappi, Janne Ferm, M-Sport Ford WRT Ford Fiesta WRC
Esapekka Lappi, Janne Ferm, M-Sport Ford WRT Ford Fiesta WRCM-Sport
M-Sport no longer has a hope in the manufacturers' championship, but the outcome of the battle of the big six works cars will mean everything in the boardrooms of Toyota and Hyundai.
Meanwhile, while the big league enjoys its all-star superhero-filled grand finale we can also look forward to plenty more intrigue in the lower leagues as we reach the deciding round of WRC2 and WRC3.
Pontus Tidemand, Patrik Barth, Toksport WRT Skoda Fabia R5
Pontus Tidemand, Patrik Barth, Toksport WRT Skoda Fabia R5McKlein / Motorsport Images
It's been the hare and the tortoise for our two WRC refugees in WRC2 this year. Veteran Mads Ostberg has enjoyed factory support for his Citroen C3 and won every round that he started - up until the last one, in Sardinia, where an opening day spent running with only rear-wheel-drive put his finely-balanced season under threat.
Ostberg's unhappiness offered some light at the end of the tunnel to Sweden's Pontus Tidemand, who has been forced to trundle gently through each event in his virgin white Skoda Fabia, picking up podiums wherever Ostberg has been present and only ever going as fast as he must in order to minimise wear and tear to his car and budget.
Joining them in Milan will be young Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux at the end of a hugely impressive learning year at M-Sport. Fourmaux will doubtless be happy to finish the season on his preferred asphalt, as will the guest star in WRC2 for the weekend, Skoda's veteran campaigner Jan Kopecky.
In WRC3, Bolivia's Marco Bulacia Wilkinson holds a two-point lead in his Citroen C3 over the Hyundai i20 of Jari Huttinen in what has been a hugely entertaining and wide-open contest among the young guns throughout the season.
Joining them will be a phalanx of talent, chief among which will be Oliver Solberg in his Skoda Fabia - the youngster doubtless thrilled to be playing to a decent sized crowd at Monza. And, while sparks fly amongst the youngsters, don't discount the hunger for victory that veteran Andreas Mikkelsen brings as he seeks to gain a top-class seat in 2021 in another WRC3 Fabia.
Franco Morbidelli, WithU Motorsport Hyundai i20 R5
Franco Morbidelli, WithU Motorsport Hyundai i20 R5WithU Motorsport
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MotoGP star Valentino Rossi, seven-time winner of Monza's rally event in previous years, will not be present but he will be represented by his motorcycling protege Franco Morbidelli. Another name to watch will be World RX regular Niclas Gronholm, son of double champion Marcus, at the wheel of his Skoda, and rally debutante Maro Engel, the GT ace making a guest outing with the Toksport WRT outfit that runs his ADAC GT Masters Mercedes.
It is a curious end to a curious season in many ways, but the prospect of this short but sweet finale promises to end 2020 on blizzard of excitement, which is something that the entire rally community worldwide thoroughly deserves.
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There are a lot of ways to judge a side-by-side: Bang for the buck. Power to weight. Overall build quality. And real-world usefulness. Honda’s Pioneer 700-4 side-by-sides just get it all so right on so many levels. They put versatility and capability at the top of their can-do list, and back it up with Honda engineering. And with Honda’s exclusive QuickFlip® seating, a Pioneer 700-4 can carry up to four people, total. When you’re not using the QuickFlip seats they fold flat, so you get maximum utility when it comes to hauling.
CONTOURED BENCH SEAT: One of the most-used components of the Pioneer 700-4 is the bench seat itself. So we gave it a durable covering that can withstand the frequent entry and exit of passengers, and the elements.
INDEPENDENT DOUBLE-WISHBONE FRONT SUSPENSION: Just like our rear suspension, the independent double-wishbone front suspension features dual-rate springs for smooth riding, superior handling and all-day comfort. And with 7.9-inches of travel, you can navigate the kind of rocky, rutted and uneven territory other side-by-sides can’t.
HONDA AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION: A vehicle this versatile demands a transmission that’s ready for anything. With a heavy-duty torque converter and three hydraulic clutches, you get smooth shifts, a steady stream of power, and engine braking. Meanwhile, the two-stage shift map further optimizes power and torque delivery, even at higher RPM ranges.
ADJUSTABLE PRELOAD REAR SHOCKS: You don’t want to compromise on handling, particularly when hauling heavy loads—and with our preload rear shocks, you don’t have to. The fully-independent rear suspension features a dual-rate spring and boasts 9.1-inches of travel. So even when loaded to the max, you’re assured predictable handling performance.
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DISC BRAKES: Mud, turf, gravel – you can handle every bit of it with confidence and still stop with confidence. Our triple-disc brakes feature a patented scraper system that helps prevent debris buildup between caliper and rim. 200mm discs in the front, and lighter, 170mm inboard-mounted disc in the rear deliver stellar stopping power.
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Lindsey Graham Credits Michael Avenatti For The Trump Win, Swetnick A ‘Turning Point’
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South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham admitted that Michael Avenatti helped President Donald Trump’s cause to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
There is a strong feeling that Avenatti and Democrats only hurt themselves with the unfounded allegations against Kavanaugh — with Dianne Feinstein culpable in the half-witted political strategy, as well.
“That allegation was so over the top, it created a moment that was scary, quite frankly. But that moment was quickly replaced by disgust,” Graham stated, referring to Avenatti client Julie Swetnick’s assertion that Brett Kavanaugh attended gang rape parties. Swetnick later walked back the allegation that she saw Kavanaugh participating in the supposed gang-rape parties.
“Harassing members at their homes, crowding the halls with people acting horribly, the effort to humiliate us really helped me unify my conference. So I want to thank these clowns for all the help they provided,” said Lindsey Graham.
I expounded on the Democrats’ bad strategy on “The Conservative Cartel” radio show:
Big League Politics’ Larry Schweikart wrote about Dianne Feinstein’s poorly-plotted political planning:
For years, perhaps decades, the GOP has often cowered when faced by Democrat activists and politicians. I’m very serious when I say this: I believe deep in their hearts many Republicans thought the Democrats—politically and strategically—were smarter and more clever than they were.
Whether in Senate rules scraps, setting the times and closings of polling places on election days, or gerrymandering districts, the GOP assumed it was getting beat, even when it was winning.
Trump has brought a new attitude, as seen in the miraculous, almost Phoenix-like revival of Lindsey Graham (my nickname: Lindsey Granite) and Charles Grassley (The Lawnmower). Certainly Susan Collins’s floor speech for now Justice Brett Kavanaugh (I love saying that) was exceptional, though we cannot count on a perennial RINO to always do the right thing. But none has made a more impressive turnaround than Mitch McConnell (or, as I affectionately call him, Yertle). In Obama’s last year, McConnell—anticipating a GOP victory in 2016 (though I’m sure the victor he had in mind was not Donald J. Trump)—held up dozens of Democrat judges and kept the Merrick Garland nomination from coming to a vote.
You can still hear the sobbing from the frustrated Democrats even now.
Long before the Kavanaugh nomination, Yertle marched Trump’s circuit court nominees through to confirmation, capped off by confirming Neil Gorsuch in 2017. According to some estimates, Trump now has already named a whopping 10% of all Circuit Court judges and McConnell has set a record for getting so many confirmed in so little time.
But this essay really is less about the sudden transformation of lambs into lions on the Republican side as it is the astonishing (and welcome) stupidity of the Democrats. I think slowly it has dawned on some of the GOP that in fact their foes were never smarter or more skilled, but rather had used the media to cow the Republicans into doubting themselves. That self-doubt appears to be over.
Rather than seeing a Democrat team racking up touchdown after touchdown, suddenly the political party opposing the Republicans looks more like an inept 3rd party, unable to keep from fumbling on every play.
Most important, the Democrats seem intent on fighting the last war. Perhaps a few sour grapes and a small does of “resistance” might have been expected after January 2017. But what we are seeing now is a completely unhinged party, totally detached from political reality, trapped in the past.
Not only have they persisted with the failed 60s-era “march and protest” strategy—which, by the way, for all the hoopla and praise it has been given by historians failed to change a single policy! Doubt me? Who won the election in 1972 after three years of mass marches that led to the most far-left candidate ever nominated by a major political party? That’s right, Tricky Dick. Do you remember how decisively he won? Answer: you’d need a magnifying glass to find the electoral votes that went to George McGovern.
Yet the modern Democrats think they are in Chicago in 1968. You can almost see Abbie Hoffman from your house.
Not only did they stick with the “protest and resist” approach all through 2017, burning up valuable time when they could craft an alternative message that might appeal to some voters (at least those near the Pacific Ocean and Madison Square Garden), they amped it up. There was virtually no national strategy to deal with Donald Trump, aside from recruiting FBI agents to run in local and house races and insisting that the KY18 special election in which 2,000 total people showed up was “signs of a blue wave.”
Remember that? Remember those who gleefully predicted the Republicans would lose “40-60 seats” in November? Now, it will be a very, very tough battle for the Democrats to flip the 23 needed to take control of the House. (My number at present is 10-15, that is, they currently can get about 15 flips if they run the table.)
Meanwhile in the Senate, where they desperately needed a plan to deal with red-state backlash against the Democrat lawlessness, they punted. So far, Heidi Heitkamp, Beto O’Rourke, and Claire McCaskill are finished. The trends are such that John Tester and Bill Nelson by meet the same fate by late next week, and within three weeks Indiana and Ohio should join the ranks of red states that gave the heave-ho to Democrat senators.
Enter Kavanaugh.
Now the Democrats had yet one more opportunity to “flip the script.” Yet instead of looking sober, sensible, and trustworthy, the Senate Democrats, in their ridiculous and vicious attack on a fine man and a superb jurist only managed to infuriate Republican and independent women! That takes some doing.
And the response of the Democrats to losing this battle? Bring out the protestors and demonstrator and look even more insane. As President Trump categorized them, “Angry, mean, nasty, and untruthful.” he could have added KooKoo for Coco-Puffs. The insanity displayed at the “protests” has to have ordinary people who are old enough to remember the Chicago riots saying, “I’ve seen this movie before.”
So what is the great strategy the Democrats adopted after their crushing defeat over Kavanaugh? Why, more of the same, of course. They vow to “impeach Kavanaugh” if they take the House, returning to the tired threats against Trump they have made for two years that have gained them nothing.
Oh, and one other little tidbit: Trump, like Napoleon, always fixes his enemy’s attention on one point while striking from behind. While the Democrats have been absorbed with Kavanaugh, Trump’s approval numbers among black Americans has skyrocketed, up to 35% approve with another 4-5% (“won’t say”). In November 2016 we called the “won’t say” people “shy Trump voters.” So while the Democrats wore pussy hats and screamed at Susan Collins, Trump has methodically stolen one of their key voter blocs. Republicans can win elections with 10% of the African-American vote: Democrats absolutely cannot win if Republicans get more than 15%.
HUGE: Court Documents Reveal Shot Kenosha Rioter Joseph Rosenbaum Was a Convicted Child Rapist
Convicted pedophile Joseph Rosenbaum was killed in an altercation at the Kenosha riots.
New court documents of the Pima County, Arizona circuit court reveal that Joseph Rosenbaum was convicted of various sex crimes against children in Arizona in 2002.
Rosenbaum was killed in an altercation while rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week. He is seen on camera lunging at 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse, who eventually shot him, claiming he acted in self defense when Rosenbaum attempted to take the AR-15 rifle he was carrying. Rittenhouse attempted to flee the scene, and was pursued by two other rioters, one armed with a gun. He tripped and fell, and when the other rioters assailed him, he shot them both. Rosenbaum and one other rioter were killed, and a third wounded. Rittenhouse has been charged with first-degree murder in the shootings.
Watch video of the shootings and decide for yourself.
Shortly after Rosenbaum was identified as one of the deceased individuals, it became public knowledge that he was on the Wisconsin sex offender registry, for crimes committed in Arizona.
One of the men killed during #Kenosha rioting last night, Joseph Rosenbaum, was a convicted sex offender. Convicted of sexual conduct with a minor in Arizona in 2002. pic.twitter.com/u8WVmuOuxi
— Richard (@Wildman_AZ) August 27, 2020
The man who may very well have set off the violent altercation is a convicted pedophile, judging from the court documents that were published Wednesday. A presentence report reveals that Rosenbaum committed a range of sex crimes against several boys from the ages of nine to eleven years old, including outright rape.
More documents reveal the legal proceedings against Rosenbaum.
Rosenbaum would be convicted of two of the eleven total charges.
Some leftists had speculated that Rosenbaum was merely a victim of the criminal justice system upon the revelation that he was a convicted sex offender, claiming he had been merely been railroaded for sexual activity with his 17-year old girlfriend as an adult, or something of the like. The new documents disprove such an assertion, demonstrating that Rosenbaum was convicted for some of the most heinous child sex crimes known to society, including the outright rape of children.
Previous criminal records of parties involved in use-of-force incidences aren’t usually admissible in court cases, but Rittenhouse’s argument of self defense appears more credible when his word is placed against the conduct of a convicted pedophile.
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Do Museums Pay For Artifacts?
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When did thousands of artifacts get stolen from the National Museum of Iraq?
Did Britain steal artifacts?
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How do museums display artifacts?
Which museum has the most artifacts?
Are museum artifacts real?
Why should stolen artifacts be returned?
Why do we need artifacts?
How can I start a museum?
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Yes because… Artefacts belong to their country of origin; repatriation is the right thing to do.
They have a unique connection with the place where they were produced and are an essential part of the cultural history of that area..
On April 10 2003, the first looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq. Staff had vacated two days earlier, ahead of the advance of US forces on Baghdad. The museum was effectively ransacked for the next 36 hours until employees returned.
The countries from which these artifacts were taken are increasingly asking for their return. Some of the world’s greatest cultural and historical treasures are housed in London’s British Museum, and a significant number of them were taken during Britain’s centuries-long imperial rule.
The average 6000 square foot History Museum, Science Center, Children’s Museum and Traveling exhibitions are $204 per square foot with 17% spent on research, design and exhibit development. That translates to around $2195 / sq.
Museum Hanging Systems: Wall space, an important area for museums, is where many valuable pieces of art are displayed. This is why museum hanging systems are very important. … This system allows them to display artwork and move the pieces around without constantly repairing the walls.
The LouvreThe Louvre in Paris is one of the world’s largest and most visited art museums in the world.
Museums are generally in better positions to evaluate both legitimacy and authenticity, but they’re also more visible. … So, then, some museums do have fake artifacts on display. Often it’s on purpose and they’ll say so. Sometimes they don’t know (though they may have suspicions).
The primary arguments for repatriation, most frequently deployed by countries and peoples who want their objects back, are: It is morally correct, and reflects basic property laws, that stolen or looted property should be returned to its rightful owner.
Museum Director Elaine Gurian suggests that artifacts provide us a way into history. “Objects, in their tangibility,” she writes, “provide a variety of stakeholders with an opportunity to debate the meaning and control of their memories.” Artifacts are the touchstones that bring memories and meanings to life.
Starting a new museum is a complex undertaking with serious fiduciary and legal obligations….The Alliance encourages you to seek legal, accounting and other professional services as needed.Step 1: Learn About Museums. … Step 2: Identify Purpose, Needs and Resources. … Step 3: Establish Your Museum. … Step 4: Sustain Your Museum.
Museums do not pay artists for exhibiting their works. The exhibit acts as a promotional event for the artist that generates publicity and public interest for the artist which may well in turn gain collectors for the artist, and turn into sales following the exhibit.
The museums collect and display artifacts so that the people can see them and learn from them. This is a place where people see the objects and learn a lot about the people and civilization of the past. It also shows to the people the things that were present on the Earth during the time that has already passed.
The majority of the responses are for exhibition between 1000 square feet and 5000 square feet (67.9% total). The per square foot costs were grouped in three ranges $25-$75 per square foot (25.5% total), $100-$150 per square foot (30.6% total), $250-$350 per square foot (25.5% total).
Museums generate revenues from admissions, membership fees, educational programs, gift shop and other sales. … Educational programs can bring in substantial net revenues, but most museums either loose money on these or just break even. Only in large and heavily trafficked museums do gift shops warrant a paid staff.
But thanks to a FASB exception for museums, if a museum receives donated objects for its collection, the museum is NOT required to recognize this gift as revenue, nor capitalize it, provided that the museum meets specific requirements, including the use of proceeds from the sales of collections items.
Today, many museums around the world contain art and artifacts that were stolen from their countries of origin during colonial rule or looted during war.
More than just displaying objects, museums use those objects to tell stories and educate the public. … In addition to using exhibitions to connect with the permanent collections, museums choose what to exhibit based on mission and strategic plans, market demand and relevancy and, of course, budget.
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iManage transforms how professionals in legal, accounting and financial services get work done by combining the power of artificial intelligence with market leading document and email management. iManage automates routine cognitive tasks, provides powerful insights and streamlines how professionals work, while maintaining the highest level of security and governance over critical client and corporate data. Over one million professionals at over 3,000 organizations in more than 65 countries – including more than 2,000 law firms and 500 corporate legal departments – rely on iManage to deliver great client work.
Active Navigation is a data privacy and governance software company. Its product suite enables enterprises and government entities to map, clean, classify, quarantine and delete redundant, obsolete and trivial data. Hundreds of companies and government agencies trust Active Navigation to help them control sensitive data and support compliance with various data privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR. Active Navigation Inc. is headquartered in the D.C. Metro area and has offices in Europe and Australia. For more information, please visit ActiveNavigation.com or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn
It is the combination of people, knowledge and technology that makes Polygon the global expert in temporary climate control, document recovery services, and emergency drying services.
As pioneers in the markets we serve, Polygon established the use of desiccant dehumidification for both Temporary Climate Solutions, Document Recovery Service and Emergency Drying Service applications over 60 years ago. In the years since, we have completed over 4,300 construction drying projects and successfully dried over 30,000 water damaged environments. All the while, Polygon continues to advance the industry with the latest technology and most energy efficient dehumidification and temperature control equipment available.
For over 60 years, we have delivered best-in-class service, while our constant investment in our people, technology and equipment ensures that our solutions are proven, repeatable, environmentally sustainable, results-oriented and cost-effective. Today, Polygon is the most experienced Temporary Climate Solutions company in the world.
Ripcord and its Canopy software platform help simplify complex business operations by enhancing the value of a companies untapped data and making this more accessible. By using vision-guided robotics to automate the digitization process and then connecting the management of data seamlessly to enable RPA (Robotic Process Automation) & other business processes, Ripcord can address the digitization challenges at scale and high quality up to 1000 dpi. Data is then managed under Ripcord Canopy where it is automatically classified, categorized with key entity extraction to drive a business process.
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FileTrail is reshaping the information risk management landscape, enabling firms to meet urgent client demands, pass audits and address new compliance rules with a modern approach to records management and information governance. FileTrail centralizes, simplifies and automates the IG life cycle, including policy management, document review and disposition — integrating across physical records and electronic repositories — so firms can address OCGs, lateral intake, matter mobility and client audit response. It’s time to move beyond records management, and FileTrail is leading the way.
BMS CAT offers restoration and reconstruction services to customers all over the world. Over the years, we have helped thousands of clients recover from disasters – both big and small. By providing recovery services to mitigate fire, water and storm damage, we help reestablish businesses and restore communities.
When Mother Nature or man-made accidents strike, we are there for you with a full range of disaster recovery and restoration services. Founded in 1948, our company has the experience, equipment and people to handle any size restoration job.
LegalRM is the creator of market-leading software, services and solutions for records management, risk management and compliance. Founded in London in 2006, we serve Top 100 law firms including Browne Jacobson LLP, Shoosmiths LLP, Clyde & Co LLP, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Clifford Chance LLP, and Linklaters LLP, as well as blue chip organisations from various industry sectors.
Our skillset is broad and deep. We combine policy and process design with software design and development. We lead business process re-engineering and the technical integration of business-critical systems and data.
Iron Mountain is a leading provider of records management, data management, document management, and secure shredding services that can help organizations to reduce cost and risk, and better use information for business advantage.
ASG Technologies is the only integrated platform and flexible end-to-end solution for the information-powered enterprise. ASG’s Information Management solutions capture, manage, govern and enable companies to understand and support all types of information assets (structured and unstructured) and stay compliant. ASG’s IT Systems Management solutions ensure that the systems and infrastructure supporting that information lifecycle are always available and performing as expected. ASG has over 3,500 customers worldwide in top vertical markets including Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance and Government. For more information, visit ASG.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Archive360 is a leader in intelligent information management. Our PaaS platform is trusted by organizations around the world to securely migrate their digital data to the cloud and responsibly manage it for today’s regulatory, legal and business intelligence obligations. Our customers achieve this by applying context around the search, classification, and analysis of structured and unstructured data – including files, videos, audio, CRM, ERP, emails/electronic communication, social media – while maintaining full control over security, privacy, access and compliance.
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More than 2000 organizations worldwide trust Archive360 to leverage the scalability, flexibility and cost advantages of the cloud. Since 2012, our customers have successfully migrated, classified, secured, analyzed, archived and managed more than 50Pb of data.
We help some of the most security-conscious organizations (government agencies, financial services, healthcare, energy) in the world establish, protect and control the security of their data and encryption.
We are cloud neutral and fully configurable to enable every customer to address their specific needs and protocols for security, regulatory, legal and infrastructure needs. We ensure zero vendor lock-in storing customer data in its native format and enabling customer-controlled on-premises and cloud encryption.
We are proud to be the only vendor in our category trusted by the Microsoft team to help customers with their digital transformation and adoptions of Azure.
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Rev. Mark H. Creech: Why Alcohol Issues Should Still Matter in North Carolina
Shadows are gathering over North Carolina. Clouds are approaching. The passion for gaining riches is set to cast a pall across the land. But our eyes have grown so accustomed to the darkness that it’s possible we’ll ignore the ominous tempest which it forebodes.
Only a few weeks ago, a Boeing jet plane crashed, and 157 people were killed. Directly after that, Boeing Max 8 planes like the one involved in the crash were shut down worldwide. Yet excessive alcohol use leads to 241 deaths every day and 2.5 million years of potential life lost every year in the United States. In North Carolina the stats reveal 360 deaths and more than 3000 years of potential life lost annually, and despite these horrific figures hardly anyone bats an eye.
Object to a legislative proposal that would dangerously make alcohol more accessible, and you are apt to be looked at as someone from the Flat Earth Society. Even most Christian organizations have given up on addressing the alcohol issue. One highly esteemed Christian activist has written a book that is a veritable encyclopedia on social issues of concern to evangelicals, but there isn’t a word about alcohol. When was the last time you heard your pastor speak about alcohol use and abuse from the pulpit? If you did, it was probably just in a passing reference and certainly not an entire sermon.
You see, the darkness is so thick with LGBTQ advances, pro-choice contentions, religious liberty issues – issues we deem much weightier – it hardly seems consequential we should be concerned about alcohol and its related harms.
Nevertheless, what’s too outdated, what’s not urgent enough, what’s not Christian enough, about resisting policies that celebrate, as well as perpetuate, the reckless use of a commodity that blasts character, weakens minds, breaks up the home, and produces crime and poverty?
Is it not also our patriotic duty as Christians to suppress forces that debase the citizenry whom the state governs and upon which all social and political groups depend for security, welfare, health, and happiness?
Christians may be divided over the question of whether to drink or not. But surely there should be unanimity on whether Christians support and work for policies that minimize and reduce alcohol-related harms. So why aren’t more Christians doing it?
Perhaps many fail to understand the depth and vast scope of alcohol-related problems? The list seems almost endless. There are serious diseases, disorders, injuries, social and legal troubles that flow from alcohol abuse and the irresponsible public policies which exacerbate it.
Without listing these harms, one might consider the situation in this way. Almost everyone has someone, either in their immediate family or part of their extended family, negatively impacted by an alcohol-related crisis. Think about it. Nearly every family has been in some fashion adversely affected. Is there anything with a more solemn distinction? Hardly!
Shadows are growing over the Old North State, and clouds are approaching. There is a storm on the horizon because certain lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly assume it’s a new day and that few people care about the alcohol issue anymore.
SOURCE: Christian Post, Rev. Mark H. Creech
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Lamborghini Reventon and Huracán by Marcel Lech
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To celebrate his Facebook page reaching one million fans, Marcel Lech put together what is arguably his most over-the-top photoshoot to date.
The shoot features the #3 of 20 Lamborghini Reventon, wearing a set of custom orange PUR rims. Alongside this incredibly rare supercar is a brand-new Huracán.
According to @ricemoney, the Reventon was at one point in Vancouver, as the previous owner had purchased it from SR Auto Group. The owner then had the car brought to Aisia where it had been for the past 2-3 years. Recently, the owner sold the car back to SR Auto Group, at a rumored price of $1.4 million
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This particular Reventon is #3 of the 20 that were made available, with #0 being housed at the Lamborghini Museum. It is sporting a set of custom, bright orange PUR rims. The inspiration for this color comes from the bizarre Lamborghini Egoista model.
The Huracán arrived in town the day of the shoot, making it a perfect addition to the legendary Reventon. Having the legendary Reventon next to the new Huracán really shows the differences and similarities between the two.
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Respected VC firm risks controversy to win fans and increase deal flow
Marketing is about powerfully telling your authentic story and backing up the territory it claims with something memorable
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Charles River Ventures (CRV) confidently posted “F*ck Trump” on their home page on August 24th in a move designed to show their support for entrepreneurial immigrants while confidently daring the blow-back. According to the announcement, the partners at CRV unanimously believe in this proclamation, and I am sure they do, but that didn’t stop someone there from carefully crafting their words for maximum positioning benefit. At Upper Diamond, for the past 7 years, we have learned quite a bit working with one of largest and most successful VCs in the USA so I will speculate that the top benefits CRV sees with this positioning are:
Winning deal flow
Recruiting future partners
Positioning themselves as the future
Marketing is about powerfully telling your authentic story and backing up the territory it claims with something memorable, like a financial reward – paying for your visa. The announcement connects CRV’s positioning to 3 core values deeply held by their audience and lived by CRV’s leadership:
Immigrants help make American great
Their first sentence states “Entrepreneurship begins and ends with a powerful immigrant spirit.” Nearly universally Americans connect to the two-fold myth that we are a land of immigrants and that if you work hard enough you can achieve the American Dream. They point out that 6 of their 9 partners are from foreign countries and that 50% of the teams they back are “people like us”. What founder would be any good if they didn’t believe that a great team behind their breakthrough idea, sufficient capital and their willingness to work their rear off was all they need to achieve the dream? CRV must know the statistic that 51% of US billion dollar startups are founded by immigrants but they don’t mention it because the emotional and aspirational language of “people like us” is much stronger in the ear of future entrepreneurs.
People matter more than ideas
If you scroll below that home page image and don’t click on the announcement you get to this statement listed with a No.1 next to it, “We invest in people before ideas”. That section’s final sentence brings the statement to life and I imagine unlike the home page image this has been on their site for some time: “Having a big idea matters, but being the person who can make it a reality matters even more.”
In the announcement they define all people in terms of immigrants and let you know where they stand. “We stand behind immigrants, the sons and daughters of immigrants and anyone with the immigrant spirit.”
Action wins over Rhetoric
“We want to move beyond rhetoric and focus on concrete actions…” They write the actions they want to take with heroic prose, “knocking down walls…creating the unthinkable from scratch with small odds of winning”, because this is the language of an entrepreneurial spirit. It is a filter to inspire the right applicants and they are fine with weeding out those that find this language too “rah rah” as they double down on the sentiment: “That is what makes the U. S. great and what drives meaningful innovation and change.”
CRV knows its audience but every position comes with potential risks. Their statement carefully didn’t endorse anyone and unlike this campaign didn’t get personal. They focused on his ideas, building a wall, and the idea of him as president, “we reject Trump’s candidacy” and by doing so diminished the emotions when the attack or endorsement feels personal. As for data on the audience, if you think education and age correlate to first time entrepreneurs, according to a recent Bloomberg poll Trump was polling at 34% for college educated voters, 21% for Post grads and 28% for under 40 year olds. Those numbers point to risks CRV can probably live with.
What CRV did by courting a small amount of controversy to publicly live by their values is not common but does happen and it will be interesting to see if it gets them future founders. Apple made headlines and gained more friends than foes over time, according to polling, by sticking to their position of not creating a backdoor to the iPhone for the government. That was a principled position with real risks that now, in light of hacks into the NSA looks really smart. It was best captured by this tweet from a week ago:
Good companies and good marketing agencies focus on the substance behind your product or service. Companies that are great communicators know that substance drives your unique selling proposition and that it should inspire your voice on social media; paid and earned. The tone and content should be something that you can live, that is also distinct enough to cultivate an audience who connects to your values. “People like us” can come in every shade and shared values make raving fans – in the end that is who you want to do business with.
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women.code(be) Member Spotlight #8
Griet Van Loo
Software developer with a specialisation in IT support
Our newest interviewee, Griet Van Loo is a software developer who’s trying to combine her work with running a household, a social life and keeping her cats alive.
She keeps herself busy with putting things on her bucket list and trying to complete them, sadly not always at the same rate. She’ll jump into the mosh pit at Graspop in a pretty dress and heels or bake cookies to munch on while watching Guardians of the galaxy.
Can you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
Hi, I’m Griet, I live in a little town South of Antwerp, with my boyfriend and our two cats. I grew up around Brussels and moved to Antwerp at 19. I’ve done some different jobs since then, mostly in administration and sales.
About 6 years ago I made a drastic change in moving to IT. I enrolled myself in a software development course at VDAB, did an internship at AllPhi and have been working there ever since.
Griet’s pet cats 😻
What is your job and what does a typical workday look like for you?
I work as a consultant in software development, with a specialisation in .NET. I’ve been with my current project for close to 3 years. It’s an insurance company, so it’s an interesting environment, and the technology ranges from very old applications in VB6 to the latest .NET Core and Angular.
I do a mix of development and IT-support, so the day generally starts with checking emails and our Teams channel for any urgent issues. Barring that, I pick up a task or bug from our board and start on that. Around 10, we have a short standup meeting. After that, it’s either working on a development task, doing some maintenance on the systems or answering calls/emails for support.
Most days are 9-to-5, but sometimes it runs late or into the weekend when there’s a deadline for a release or for things that can’t be done during business hours. With COVID-19, we moved to work-from-home, but before that we mostly used to work from the office.
What is the favourite part about your job?
That’s actually really hard to say. Getting to see the things you build in action is a nice one, like actual people using the applications you created and knowing you made their work a little easier. I also love those moments where something just clicks, when you’re stuck on a problem for days and then stumble on the solution when brushing your teeth.
Finally, I always needed some variety, so getting to work in different environments and with people from all walks of life is a big plus for me as a consultant.
How about when you’re not working? Any hobbies or interests you’d like to tell us about?
We’ve spent the last year remodelling and decorating our apartment, so there’s that. Aside from that, I have a pretty diverse, bit geeky, but mostly mundane taste: board games, cooking, hanging out with friends, going to concerts, … I’ve also always liked dancing, lately I’ve been thinking about picking (back) up on burlesque or belly dancing.
What or who got you initially interested in coding and / or pursuing a career in tech?
There is a home-video of me from when I was about 5, where I’m mostly explaining how the recorder works, rather than singing a song like my dad asked, so I guess some sort of genetic predisposition? 😊
The thing that really triggered my interest, was a project I was part off, where we had to implement SAP. This was during my time as a customer support, about 15 years ago. It did however take me another 4-5 years to actually take the leap.
If you look back on when you first started out. What advice would you give yourself?
Don’t let yourself be held back by not having the typical background or traditional education for something.
What are some of the most difficult challenges you had to face since moving into IT?
Getting into IT later in life did put me at a disadvantage in that I am a junior in terms of technical skills, but a senior in work experience and analytical skills, so getting people to listen to that can be hard sometimes.
For example, there was this project I was a part off, where I made a suggestion at the start of the project. My suggestion was dismissed by a senior and almost a year later, the same guy took credit for doing exactly what I said.
We also have this kind of coach at work, who is supposed to help you figure out your journey and help with any technical issues. He does seem like a nice guy and has a lot of technical skills, but I have almost equally as much work experience as him and he looked so disappointed when I told him exactly where I see myself in a few years…
Are there any particular women in tech who have inspired you?
Mostly the women I encounter every day, at work, events, on Twitter, … the ones just doing their thing and being passionate about tech. I do like Chloe Condon , she comes from a non-traditional background as well, and proves that you can work in tech and still be “girly”.
Kind of cheesy, but my mom, who has been handling the customer loyalty program for Colruyt for 40 years, while successfully raising 3 kids, is also a bit of a role model.
Do you have any favourite resources or projects you like to follow? (f.e. certain podcasts, newsletters,…)
I haven’t really discovered the allure of podcasts. I’m subscribed to some newsletters like the one from Stack Overflow and DotNetCurry, but I mostly follow our AllPhi Yammer for stuff colleagues are sharing and my Twitter following list contains quite some tech related accounts.
What made you join the women.code(be) meetups?
I’ve always had more of a connection with men, because of my techy/geeky interests. So at first, it was just about getting to know other women who code. We are a small (but thankfully growing) community and having at least one shared interest seemed like a good start to make some new friends. In the longer term, I hope that as a community, we can do some good and make some changes for women in tech in general.
Why do you think it was easier to connect with men than women over geeky/techy interests?
I guess I just didn’t meet that many women in my generation that were into it, at least not on the same level I was. For example, I used to co-host lan-parties 20 years ago and the very few girls there were either “girlfriends of”, i.e. just hanging around wishing for it to be over, or really hardcore gamers, whose whole identity seemed to be based on it.
By the time I turned 30, most women around me were getting married and having kids. Even the ones who enjoyed the occasional geeky movie before, seemed to have trade it in happily for Sesame Street…
I do think it has gotten easier for younger women, but even so, the bathroom line for men at FACTS is still longer than the one for women.
Some of Griet’s “geeky” sides
How can we make it easier for women to connect over shared interests?
I think you’re doing a good job in organising events where women can connect without having to defend their interests or opinions to men. This is sometimes noticed this happening at mixed events. It’s like we have to work extra hard to prove we have the right to be there. It could be nice to have some more social/activity based events though, post COVID-19 of course.
Is there a (board) game that you’d recommend to other devs? Something that works well for the coder mindset?
I can highly recommend Concept, a fun twist on Pictionary. Instead of drawing things, you use icons and tokens to hint at what the answer is. It really forces you to think abstractly and out of the box for some of the harder concepts. We once spent half an hour trying to find “mayonnaise”.
How could the tech industry be more inclusive for women and minorities?
I think two issues are the core of most problems;
The outdated view on gender and gender-roles and the focus on being at your desk 5 days a week, 8 hours in a row for 40 to 50 years of your life.
How would you tackle the issues that you mentioned? How would you reform the industry?
I think the outreach programs like WeGoSTEM, CoderDojo4Divas, …, are a good first step to get more girls interested in the industry. After that, being good role models and mentors is a job for all women already in it. That’s what I like about initiatives like women.code(be).
On the other hand, I feel some of the women in tech events, especially the speakers, are still too focused on the managerial types and not the women who are doing the actual tech work.
The ongoing pandemic opened up some eyes on the need for flexibility in the workplace. I just hope the effect will be a lasting one. Flexible hours, flexible work-from-home policies and a better sense of “essential jobs” can only help people find a better match for what they actually like doing and a better work-life balance.
That’s why I’m also an advocate for some form of universal basic income, so that people don’t HAVE to work to have their basic needs covered, making it easier to try different things, take up an extra course, stay home with the kids if they want to, …
Have you ever dealt with a bad experience in the past and would you handle this different now, retrospectively? (such as discrimination over gender, sexist jokes,…)
I have been VERY lucky not to have experienced, or at least noticed, any discrimination myself. Most of the time I can come up with a pointed answer to the boys will be boys kind of jokes or remarks. There was one day though, where I had to sit through lunch with some colleagues defending Jeff Hoeyberghs. This was after Jeff’s talk at the UGent and I just wasn’t able to talk to my colleagues for weeks.
In retrospect, I wish I had taken this up with my manager. But, I guess that’s the difficult thing as a consultant sometimes, where you don’t wanna rock the client’s boat.
One last question. You were part of the Punt. VZW organisation, would you mind telling a bit more about that?
PUNT. vzw is a non-profit, creating awareness around sexual harassment and sexual abuse/violence. They do this through monthly meetings and workshops for victims, as well as educating the public and putting political pressure to change the system. I worked on communication (the website, social media, press releases, …), fundraising, IT and logistics for events.
I think it is an important cause, since 1 in 5 women experience some form of sexual assault in their lifetime and almost all of us experience sexual harassment at one point.
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Weekend Fun for February 2-3, 2013 in Boston and Beyond
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Below are the best deals this weekend for the first weekend in February in Boston and Beyond. Enjoy!
Pics in the Park Series: Sunday, February 3, 2013 from 11 AM to noon. Every Sunday in February, the Boston Parks and Recreation department is offering free photography sessions to all ages and photographers. Free.
Some Like It Hot Chili Cook-Off: Saturday, February 2, 2013 from 1pm to 2:30pm in Harvard Square. Enjoy the Annual Chili cookout with many local restaurants participating. Free to taste some delicious chili.
And another Chili cook-off on Sunday for free in Somerville, if you’d rather.
Can’t Keep ‘em Apart: A Beer & Chocolate Love Story 2013: Saturday, February 2, 2013 from 2-6pm at Taza Chocolate in Somerville. What could be better than a beer and chocolate pairing? $5 donation for the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Bank of America’s Museum on Us Weekend: Saturday, February 2, 2013 & Sunday, February 3, 2013. Bank of America & Merrill Lynch cardholders can get into select museums the first weekend of every month for free by showing their bank card (per person, not family). Museum of Fine Arts, MIT Museum and six other museums across the state participate in the free museum program.
Harvard Art Museum: Saturday, February 2, 2013. From 10am-12pm on Saturdays, Massachusetts residents can explore the museum for free with proper Mass ID.
Harvard Museum of Natural History and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Sunday, February 3, 2013. Mass residents can visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology for free on Sundays from 9am-12pm with proof of Massachusetts residency.
Kid Price Saturday at Franklin Zoo: Saturday, February 2, 2013. Pay and feel like a kid the first Saturday of every month at Franklin Park Zoo between 10 a.m. & noon for just $11. Head to Stoneham, MA to the Stone Zoo between 10am-12pm and pay $10 for admission.
Pilates Bootcamp with Jennifer Phelan: Saturday, February 2, 2013. Join Pilates instructor Jennifer Phelan for a 45-minutes Pilates class for free at the Quincy Market Upper Rotunda from 9:15am to 10am. Bring your own mat.
And there are a lot of great ski deals for Superbowl Sunday on 2/3/13, you can find the best deals here.
Happy Weekend. Go niners?!?
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How metformin prevents tumors: UCSD researchers
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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism that helps fortify the structure and tight junctions between epithelial cells — a basic cell type that lines various body cavities and organs throughout the body, forming a protective barrier against toxins, pathogens and inflammatory triggers. Breaches of this barrier can provoke organ dysfunction and development of tumors.
The findings, published online in the current issue of eLife by senior author Pradipta Ghosh, MD, professor in the departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues, helps illuminate why the widely prescribed anti-diabetic drug Metformin has repeatedly been shown to not only protect epithelial integrity in the face of stressors like inflammation, sepsis, hypoxia and harmful microbes, but also appears to prevent cancer.
Virtually all cell types possess cell polarity — the asymmetrical organization of their components and structures that makes it possible for them to carry out specialized functions. In epithelial cells, polarity determines how they form barriers. Loss of epithelial polarity impacts organ development and function and can initiate cancers.
The stress-polarity pathway, discovered and described in 2006 and 2007, is a specialized pathway mobilized only during periods of stress. It is orchestrated by a protein-kinase called AMPK that protects cellular polarity when epithelial cells are under energetic stress and an activator of AMPK called LBK1.
“The latter is a bona fide tumor suppressor,” said Ghosh. Mutations in LBK1 have been linked to cancers and loss of cell polarity. While the question of exactly how the energy-sensing LKB1-AMPK pathway maintains cell polarity during stress remained unknown for more than a decade, evidence accumulated that Metformin, an activator of the LKB1-AMPK pathway and a frontline treatment for type 2 diabetes, has beneficial effects on the epithelial lining and can potentially prevent cancer.
The new research, said Ghosh, provides “mechanistic insights into the tumor suppressive action of Metformin and the LKB1-AMPK pathway at a higher resolution.” Specifically, she and colleagues discovered that the stress-polarity pathway requires a key effector of AMPK — a protein called GIV/Girdin.
In cultured polarized epithelial cells, the authors demonstrated that AMPK and its activator Metformin exerted much of their beneficial effects via phosphorylating GIV and directing GIV to the tight junctions of the epithelial layer. Without such phosphorylation and/or targeting, the beneficial effects of AMPK, and its activator Metformin, were virtually abolished and the epithelial barrier became “leaky” and eventually collapsed. Mutants of GIV found in colon cancer that specifically abolish AMPK’s ability to phosphorylate GIV could trigger tumor cell growth in 3D matrigel.
“In summary, by identifying GIV/Girdin as a key layer within the stress-polarity pathway we’ve peeled another layer of the proverbial onion,” Ghosh said. “In the process, we’ve provided new insights into the epithelium-protecting and tumor-suppressive actions of one of the most widely prescribed drugs, Metformin, which may inspire a fresh look and better designed studies to fully evaluate the benefits of this relatively cheap medication.”
Co-authors of the study are: Nicolas Aznar, Arjun Patel, Christina Rohena, Ying Dunkel, Vanessa Taupin, Irina Kufareva, and Marilyn Farquhar, all at UC San Diego.
Article Source: http://www.stonehearthnewsletters.com/how-metformin-prevents-tumors-ucsd-researchers/diabetes/
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Proposed gambling law: Commission to oversee gaming sector, issue licenses
in All News / By: on March 6, 2020 at 7:15 AM /
As Minister of Finance, Premier Andrew Fahie has portfolio responsibility for gambling in the BVI.
By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff
The proposed Gambling (Gaming and Betting) Virgin Control Act of 2020, which seeks to legalise gambling in the BVI and ‘provide for the regulation and control of gaming and betting and matters, has been drafted and published in the government’s official Gazette for public viewing.
The proposed billl, states that a special Gambling Control Commission will regulate the operation of gambling in the territory.
The gambling Board
The Act states that the Commission shall be managed by a Board appointed by the Minister of Finance, and this board will consist of a chairman and eight other members. One of the members will be appointed on the recommendation of the BVI Chamber of Commerce & Hotel Association and the BVI Tourist Board.
“Members of the [Gambling Commission’s] Board shall be appointed on such terms and conditions as the minister shall determine. Persons shall be qualified to be members of the Board by reason of their work and experience in the gambling industry or fields relating to law, finance, information technology, economics, management, social work or law enforcement,” the Act states.
Notably, the Chairman, a Deputy Chairman and two other members, will be appointed for a four-year term, while other members will be appointed for two and three-year terms.
Commission issues gambling licenses
The Commission would also be tasked to provide information to other regulatory and government agencies including the Inland Revenue Department, the Financial Investigation Agency, the Commissioner of Customs, and the Commissioner of Police.
It will be able to grant gaming licenses without prejudice, impose conditions in the granting of licenses, engage in consultations in accordance with prescribed regulations, conduct studies, prepare reports, and generally make recommendations relating to the gambling industry in the British Virgin Islands, the Act stated.
In addition, the Commission is responsible to verify the background, character and reputation of a person applying for a gaming license and that person’s relative or associate as the Commission deems necessary. The Commission will also be able to perform regular reviews of a licensed gaming operation and collect fees and levies.
Gambling license categories
Under this Act, there are several categories of licences that one can obtain.
They include a Gaming Operators Licence, which shall permit the licensee to operate a gaming establishment for the purpose of conducting gaming; and a Gaming Owners Licence, which shall authorise the licensee to own a gaming establishment. However, the Act states Game Owners licensees cannot operate such as establishment without first having obtained a Gaming Operators Licence.
There is also a Bookmakers Licence, which shall permit the licensee to conduct betting activities other than pool betting; a Promoters Licence which shall permit a licensee to stage live racing and conduct pool betting (pari-mutuel) activities; among other licence types.
Powers to suspend and revoke license
In the meantime, the Commission also has the power to suspend or revoke a licence if, after review, a license holder is not conforming to the law. However, before doing so, the Commission must give notice in writing detailing the reasons for the suspension and the grounds that it intends to do so.
A response from the license holder challenging the Commission must be submitted within seven days of receiving the notice.
“Where a decision is taken to revoke the licence, notice of revocation shall be sent to the address of the licensee and published in the Gazette,” the Act said.
no don't tell me says:
Is the VIP gambling away the BVI future ?????
Corruption says:
Can’t wait to see the corruption within the Government with crap. Which Belonger is capable of counting to 20 without the use of hands and toes are going to run a gaming establishment. Better contact Sol Kirsner over at Atlantis in the Bahamas. Otherwise this will be a s**t show.
Clearly says:
If gambling is allowed and casinos are opened it should be like the Bahamas where gambling is an activity to draw in tourism and tourist dollars. Under no circumstances should the local population be allowed to gamble. If allowed to do so it will ruin families, create crime and despair for the people. Gambling should be legalized to boost the economy by drawing in outside money and providing local jobs. Keep it legal. Keep the safe. Keep it out of the hands of the locals.
I think gambling is insidious, I support its continued ban. Morally how is it acceptable to say non-residents can destroy their lives but we will only protect our people from destroying theirs. What is wrong is wrong.
oh ho says:
All gambling places will require arm guards
:) says:
Don’t be so naive places are already doing various types of gambling including sports betting for years. None have any kind of security. One in the heart of town have been around for over 20 years, robberies have occurred but hey even churches and schools have been robbed so crime isn’t strictly limited to those kind of businesses.
wow says:
Crime will be on the rise…The BVI doom now…Thank you VIP
First Reading says:
The Bill has only been brought to the House for First reading, and has not yet been assented to by the Governor….
I wonder if any of the people from his other boards will be sitting on this board also collecting checks. And I do hope that they will not have a vested interest in the proposed businesses to come. If that ever happens in some countries that is called a conflict of interest or might I say corruption. This board will be a whose who of …..
bvi says:
THERE GOES OUR FUTURE AND NATURE’S LITTLE SECRETS
And the Chairman will be the Gas Man?
Woww says:
St Thomas and others already legalize gambling tortola we behind yess VIP thank You
Ha! says:
And what has that done to help the overall economy?…….I’ll wait
Leave Andrew alone says:
Andrew is on a roll.He is building up the BVI. If we want to be competitive and not be left behind certain things have to be done.
Good statement “certain things have to be done”. Do we have to follow fashion? Can we not be creative?
Well done to the government, forward thinking and will bring revenue into the government funds. Now continue with this forward thinking and allow same sex marriage – we could be making a lot of money!
Diaspora says:
I’m not averse to legalizing gambling, for illegal gambling is already occurring, ie, racktrack betting, dice games, domino games, card games, cock fighting, dog fighting, USVI and PR lottery …….etc. Nonetheless, it must be acknowledged that gambling is a game of chance wherein the house always wins and people at the lower end of the economic ladder often times play the most and loses relatively the most trying to hit it big. What is next casinos, cruise liners being allowed to gamble within the territorial sea ( up to 12 nmi from shore), national lottery……etc
Moreover, Gambling Commission members must undergo a strict and thorough criminal background check, and a thorough financial disclosure and interest check (all interest in assets must be disclosed) investigation. And Gambling Commission members must submit an annual financial disclosure statement to the Commission. The VI leak like a sieve in regards to protecting secret, sensitive and confidential information.
Thus, personal financial information provided to the Commission must be protected and treated with the utmost care and only person(s) with a need to know should have access to the information. Commission members must see and don’t see and hear and do not hear. The information seen as a member(s) of the Commission should be treated with the utmost professionalism even after leaving the Commission ;unless requested by a court, it should not be revealed to anyone and taken to one’s grave. There must be severe penalties for leaking private, sensitive and confidential information.
Triple Edge Blade and Doulble Barrel Shot Gun. says:
Triple Edge Blade and Doulble Barrel Shot Gun.
Enforcement of a law is hopeful, averting and or controlling the stiffling organized and white collar crime is quite another unwinable and daunting task. Good luck there.
On the other thought, the initiative can generate tremendous revenue and hopefully jobs for the territory, but the accompanying maladies and pathogens, if not carefully considered and averted may be counteproductive to the economic, social and cultural being of the territory.
As such, this initiative, though potentially lucrative for the territory, must be thoroughly thought out to avoid the negative accompanying effects and consequences.
Meanwhile, though is not and has created a single job, the religious entity of this nation will be its greatest opposer.
Create a crime, corruption and embezzelmet free gambling scheme and it might work and produce. However, religion and human nature will be its greatest challenges.
Disinterested says:
“The VI leak like a sieve in regards to protecting secret, sensitive and confidential information. Thus, personal financial information provided to the Commission must be protected and treated with the utmost care and only person(s) with a need to know should have access to the information.” Really! It is the BVI you talking about where bring cum carry, licking melee and gossiping is a favorite past time. It is a means of entertainment in an entertainment starved community. It can be a costly means of entertainment.
If it were not so serious and harmful at times, it would be humorous. Nonetheless, we must protect the information. However, given the strict rules that you are advocating and if adopted, will it scare off many potential candidates for a seat on the Commission?
Anyway, the commission must promote counseling for gamblers. Gambling can get addicting and has the potential to ruin individuals and families. A gambler is always of the mind set that all it takes is one last hand and the last hand turns into another last hand and another……. Gamblers borrow at exorbitant interest rate to play that last hand. The lenders(loan sharks) do well and gamblers endures much pain and grief; ie $50 for a $1000 is good return for a week or two weeks.
In gambling there must be losers and winners just like the stock market. However, the losers are often more than the winners. If that were not true, how else could the house always win. The silver lining is that the house will win, government will collects some dearly needed revenue and a few players will win to keep players coming back. What does the clergy have to say on all this? Suspect they are livid about this particular sin.
Correction:$50 for $1000 should have read $50 for $100. $*0 for $100 is good but $60 for $1000 would be awesome.
This is good. The businesses and people that were hiding and doing it will now be taxed and we will collect some revenue via trade licenses. Some people think legalizing gambling means big casinos opening all over the BVI but we don’t have a market for that here so I don’t expect that anytime soon. The cruise ships will also now be able to enter the port any anytime without fear of breaking our gambling laws.
UM says:
Desperate times call for desperate measures! However on what basis was this decided? Surely not revenue generation alone? what social impact assessment have been done?
Oh Boy!Another avenue for graft and corruption.
…and where does that leave the ‘lottery ladies’ ???
EU citizen says:
Gambling (casinos) is clearly the best source of revenue for the BVI. Look at Monaco, St Martin,…
Much better than tax evaders and drug lords.
Also, it’s fun to gamble!
mafia says:
All will fall under the umbrella of the Mafia with associated crime and corruption. ‘O CRY FOR ME BVI’
Jah bless says:
The Puerto rico lottery isn’t that gambling. The spanish lottery isn’t that gambling. Is there any tax collection from them I dont think so. So it’s time to upgrade the island with our own
I hope the Government considered the possibility money laundering risk associated with gambling.
@Chad says:
What about the greater risk for not considering Gambling and leaving millions on the street being earned illegally.
Outsider says:
Gambling is a predicate to money laundering. I hope the Government took this into consideration when they decided to allow gambling in the BVI.
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STOCKS ADVANCE AMID YELLEN TESTIMONY, GOLDMAN EARNINGS
Stocks jump, tech shares outperform after Yellen calls on Congress to ‘act big’ with virus relief aid
Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) Remains a Top Energy Stock to Own Today
Karen Thomas, MSc, CFA
It hasn’t been an easy ride for any of the constituents of the Canadian oil patch. Whether we’re talking about oil weighted companies, natural gas weighted companies, or even integrated companies that do a bit of everything, the last few years have been difficult, to say the least.
As investors in the Canadian oil and gas space, we know this all too well. While on the one hand, there are glimmers of value and operational strength, on the other hand, the uncertainty related to commodity prices, the ultimate long-term death wish for the industry, and the lack of demand for any stock oil and gas related.
Despite all this, however, we continue to see certain oil and gas companies that are thriving with respect to their businesses and business performance.
Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU)(NYSE:SU) is one of the integrated oil and gas companies that by its very nature provides a diversified exposure that shelters it from the large swings of the more focused and narrow oil and gas companies.
With 48% of its earnings coming from oil sands, 47% of its earnings coming from its refining and marketing operations and the remainder of its earnings coming from exploration and production, Suncor’s stock and financial results have relatively stable and steady histories.
Suncor stock is trading slightly higher than five-years ago and if we look at the company’s results, we can see major strength.
Free cash flow margin as a measure of value
Suncor is now operating at a free cash flow margin of almost 15%, as the company’s integrated business model continues to generate strong cash flows. In the first nine months of 2019, Suncor’s free cash flow margin (calculated as free cash flow divided by revenue) shows how well a company can convert revenue to cash and the quality of the company and its stock.
It’s the ultimate measure of profitability, the quality of a business, and the returns the business can provide. An almost 15% free cash flow margin shows us the quality of Suncor’s operations and business model.
Suncor’s quality balance sheet, low debt levels, and strong profitability support the company’s dividend payments and growth. Currently, Suncor stock’s dividend yield stands at almost 4%.
Its dividend has grown more than 47% since 2015, and according to estimates can be expected to continue to grow at an accelerated pace in the next few years. Projects aimed at driving margins will contribute to Suncor’s capacity to continue to grow and drive incremental free cash flow of $2 billion annually by 2023.
Warren Buffet agrees
In the past year, Warren Buffet bought a stake in Suncor. With Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s investment into the Canadian oil and gas sector through Suncor, this may leave investors with a sense of the value that exists in this beaten-up sector.
Suncor Energy invests in a cleaner future
One major hurdle that Suncor and all oil and gas stocks are facing is the negative impact that they are having on the environment. Suncor’s stated greenhouse gas emissions goal is to “harness technology and innovation to reduce our emission intensity by 30% by 2030.”
This will be achieved by using more co-generation facilities, a highly efficient technology that reduces waste by investing in technology to change the way the company extracts and processes the oil sands and by conducting research into Carbon capture and conversion technologies.
Finally, the company’s initiative also includes investing in lower carbon forms of energy, even including renewable energy such as wind and biofuels, and indication that this $65-billion company intends to be around for the long term.
Foolish bottom line
Suncor Energy remains a top energy stock to buy for exposure to the oil and gas industry. With massive cash flows continuing to roll into the company’s coffers coupled with a long-term strategy to remain sustainable and to reduce its carbon footprint, Suncor is in a great position today.
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Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds trade jokes on Twitter – See their exchange!
By Emmy Griffiths
Ryan Reynolds has poked fun at his good friend Hugh Jackman after the Wolverine actor posted a photo about his "amazing visit" to Beijing. In the snap, the star is surrounded by fans, and Ryan was quick to tease the actor about it. Sharing the photo on his own Twitter feed, he wrote: "Pretty sure those are protesters." Hugh clearly saw the funny side of the tweet, and responded: "Really… Guy… Really?!"
The pair, who both play lead roles in the X-Men franchise regularly tease each other. Ryan recently imitated Hugh in his latest outing as the superhero, Deadpool. In a new three-minute clip, the star makes a reference to Hugh's character Wolverine before imitating him in an Australian accent. "Yeah like to get my tank top on, bit of perspiration, have a nice little crime fighting spree yeah," he said in the clip. "Happy hug a koala day."
Ryan and Hugh are good friends
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Ryan has also opened up about how much he'd like to make a tie-in film for both of their characters. He said: "I want Deadpool and Wolverine in a movie together. What we're gonna have to do is convince Hugh. If anything, I'm going to need to do what I can to get my internet friends back on board to help rally another cause down the line. Hugh Jackman is one of the best human beings. Part of the reason I want to do a Deadpool/Wolverine movie is not just because I think the two would light the screen on fire but I genuinely love the guy."
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Pretty sure those are protesters. https://t.co/URNGDCg0cO
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) March 5, 2017
However, Hugh has confirmed that his latest outing as Wolverine in Logan will be his last. He has recently revealed how dedicated he is to the role by giving fans a glimpse at him recording ADR (automated dialogue replacement), and fans joked that they were "exhausted" after watching the impressive clip. One wrote: "I wish I could commit to something as much as Hugh Jackman does. This is amazing," while another added: "How did you not pass out after that one? That looks exhausting."
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Egypt's 10 Most Surreal Viral Videos of 2018
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Another year, another list of hilarious Made-in-Egypt videos. Watch at your own risk.
Egypt is a place of many mysteries; the least of which is how the Pyramids were built. The wonders of Egypt go far beyond its jaw-dropping history, for the internet has enabled us to continue to make history everyday just by overtly being ourselves. From asserting that Earth is 'scientifically-proven' to be flat, to a woman casually giving a monkey a hand-job, to the biggest music hit on the internet this year, here are Egypt's 10 most surreal viral videos in 2018.
BLOCKBLOCK
Nothing beats a refreshing reminder that the block option exists. Your ex is being a dick and actually moving on? BLOCK. Your BFF cancelled lunch last minute? BLOCK. Your Mum wants to know where you're at? You know the drill. We all know the drill. But when Radwa El-Sherbini decided to remind us that we could actually utilise such a revolutionary option, she spared no efforts in getting her message across, and we're totally here for it. And the internet, subsequently, spared no efforts in make us LOL about it for weeks.
Not Courses
It's more of a cultural phenomena than it is a viral video. In no time, this English-language wizard has gone from nobody to Internet-sensation with a stream of videos that are supposedly English-language tutorials - but they are so much more. In this recent video, the linguistic master sends an open letter to his haters, the ones who dare point out his questionable pronunciation. But he takes it all in with an open heart, and we're rewarded by this gem of a video that will definitely teach you how it's like being thick-skinned to a fault. Ksanksbye.
Earth is Actually Flat
No, this is not the 17th century, it's 21st century Egypt. An Egyptian 'scientist' made an TV appearance to resurrect the debate on whether the earth is flat or round to an end. She was able to prove, with scientific evidence, that the earth is actually flat. How did she manage to do that? Simple. If the earth was in-fact round, you wouldn't able to see the horizon as it will have to skew downwards. Science, bitch.
Why Incest Happens
Ever wondered how could someone fancy having sex with their siblings or parents? Well, wonder no friggin' more, because we finally have an answer; they're simply not related. True story. If a father ever feels sexually attracted to his daughter, then she must not be she must not be his daughter; time to check what Mama's been up to in 1989. That's what's up, plain and simple. Not a bad time to consider concentration camps to be honest.
Wiping Energy
Did you suddenly feel depressed in your Uber this morning when you remembered you have to work on New Year's Eve? That's not you, it's all that negative energy left over from the passenger before you. According to one brilliant energy expert, you don't just sit somewhere without wiping off the energy of the person before you first - what a rookie mistake. According to Dr. Mayada Mahmoud, simply wiping anything before using is enough to ensure you won't get any leftover energy. Thank you, Egypt.
Enty Ay Kalam
Yes, this song is about you. This song is about me. It's about everyone and everything. We're all ay kalam, and that's why this song by Tameem Younes took Egypt by storm this year. Mostly because it's merely telling a very simple fact that we all tend to forget in the midst of hectic office days that make us feel somewhat busy and important; E7NA AY KALAM.
Drew Barrymore's Fake EgyptAir Interview
This was arguably more embarrassing than it was funny. Actually no, it's hilarious. A journalist working for EgyptAir's inflight magazine Horus let her imagination roam a little too freely in an issue that featured completely made-up interview with Hollywood A-lister Drew Barrymore. In her own defense, this taught everyone a very valuable lesson on resilience and when a great opportunity never comes on its own; fake the hell out of it.
Painted Zebra
One thing that will never run short in Egypt is resourcefulness. We've turned balconies into storage spaces, rooftops into duplexes, and, when one famous Nasr City park sought to attract more visitors, they turned donkeys into zebras. Because, well, why the hell not?
Harassing Monkeys
You might think that sexual harassment is only faced by women, and you would be wrong. Just last month, one bizarre Egyptian was caught on film touching a monkey in ways a monkey should never been touched. It got us wondering, was he asking for it? What was he wearing? Why was he out of the cage all by himself? So many questions. Luckily, the lady in question has just been sentenced to 3 years in prison. Now all monkeys across the land can sleep safe and sound.
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Nick Westergaard interview
by Colin Finkle
How bravery in marketing can lead the human moments in which great brands are forged.
I often catch myself doing small brand reviews of commercial vehicles while in my own car; mostly small business whose truck graphics will be the most prominent billboard they will ever own. It is mostly as one would expect: a contractor whose logo is two tools crisscrossed, a logistics company which shows a long road narrowing in the distance.
But tonight I came across an otherwise tough Ford F-250 painted pink with blue lettering. Even though I was in a rush, I took the time to read the side: Zanatta Posthole Digging. The temptation for most would be to mock the truck, but this fellow knows more about branding than 99.9% of entrepreneurs and professionals. He or she put their grown-up pants on, took a risk, stood out, and now creates memorable impressions everywhere they go.
Today we talk to Nick Westergaard about those brands which take risks, do what makes sense on a human level, and create strong impressions in the process. Brands like Starbucks, Barkbox, Coldwell Banker, and more.
Nick Westergaard is an educator, strategist, speaker, and two-time author. He works with companies of all sizes create strong brands as Chief Brand Strategist at Brand Driven Digital. He is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and many other places. He is the host of the podcast: On Brand.
Mr. Westergaard wrote Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small, but came to talk to us about Brand Now: How to Stand Out in a Crowded, Distracted World
Text: Nick Westergaard and Colin Finkle talk about how the brand lives in the mind of the customer, how canine mating created customers for Bark Box (in more than 1 sense,) and Kirk vs. Picard.
Colin Finkle: What does the term brand mean to you?
Nick Westergaard: Well, it’s funny because I having a podcast about branding myself, I ask this question a lot. And I’ve compiled the answer, so I’m worried that my answer will be stolen from someone else.
I’m a fan of the Jeff Bezos classic of “what people say when you’re not in the room.” The emotional aftertaste that you leave with someone. The brand is what is left behind the emotion that someone feels, as opposed to anything that we are broadcasting at someone automatically becoming the brand. It is what we’re left with as the audience. And that’s why it’s it’s so much more than just the 30-second ad.
The brand is the customer service experience someone has in your store. It is the experience filling out the order form on your website. It is what your employees are wearing. There are so many different touchpoints that set off that brand experience and what you’re left with at the end of the day.
United would love it if their brand were about “Flying the Friendly Skies,” but for most of us, the United brand is about dragging people off of flights and and and and killing dogs.
Colin Finkle: I agree, but when you cruise a store with someone that’s not in the marketing industry, they think that we have perfect control of the brand using hidden messages or something. But the consumer has more power over the brand than the marketer because the brand lives in their heads. The brand is not something that can be perfectly conveyed through the communications, packaging or whatever. We don’t have mind control… yet.
Nick Westergaard: I like that you tossed the “yet” in there. It adds that level of fright and big brother that so many think of marketing as.
Colin Finkle: For people who don’t know Nick Westergaard, what brought you to branding?
Nick Westergaard: What brought me to branding? I started in customer service for a small educational publishing company many, many years ago. It was a publishing company in the early internet days, so we were still sending out a lot of direct mail. I literally started in the mail room, because we would prep massive direct mail envelope with trifle types of pieces that were going out with a business reply card in them. So that was kind of my advanced direct marketing degree.
And then, of course, as the internet came into being, all of that direct marketing became internet focused. We did direct marketing using the first e-commerce website for the company which I helped build. Through mastering and all these different channels, I came to realize that what’s behind it all. Despite all of these shifts, it is the brand behind the digital marketing megaphone.
So that led me to the higher calling of chasing what’s below all of these tactics and going more strategic: brand marketing.
Colin Finkle: What prompted you to write your book Brand Now… well… now?
Nick Westergaard: Like right now, right now?
Well, when I wrote my first book, Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small, I talked about branding in the very first chapter because it’s important to understand your brand, who you are and what you stand for, before you can do more with less with these new digital marketing tools.
“[I]t’s important to understand your brand, who you are and what you stand for[.]”
But a funny thing happened. All the other chapters in Get Scrappy we’re very clear, concise and relatively short; that brand building chapter quickly bloated up to about two or three times as long as all of the other chapters. So I took a moment and set that big bloated chapter aside. This was my first inclination that I might have more to say on the topic of branding.
I was also called upon to teach the branding courses for a semester here at the University of Iowa while colleague went on sabbatical. So that prompted me to take the framework of that chapter and to flesh it out. And that thinking became Brand Now. This book is all about how to build a standout brand in this crowded, distracted world that we find ourselves in.
Colin Finkle: Well, it couldn’t be more timely because small to medium sized businesses have inexpensive tools to get their logos, websites, videos, tutorials all designed, written, produced. But then their brand lacks any meat or substance; there isn’t a meaning or strategy behind the work of a lot of small companies. What do you think?
Nick Westergaard: A lot of the times, smaller brands grapple with: “oh, we don’t have all the resources that a larger brand has.” But smaller brands can exert more control over their brand.
In my first job at the publishing company, I realized, while taking over different aspects of the brand with digital marketing, that we could easily exert control since we owned all of those touch points. It was a small entrepreneurial company, about thirty people at the time. And we could create a very unique brand experience. So that was an advantage we had that many small businesses have. They should leverage it.
Colin Finkle: Yeah, you see the big companies with many brands, like Procter and Gamble, break it up into smaller brands that are of a manageable size.
Nick Westergaard: Yeah, there’s definitely a scale advantage for large companies, but flipping that script and looking at what you can do when you can exert control over the things that those other big cumbersome companies might not be able to pivot quite as effectively with.
Colin Finkle: So it’s natural for marketers and small business owners to target prospective customers. But you have five orbits to your brand solar system. Can you tell us about those?
Nick Westergaard: Community is something that I talked about as one of the Brand Now dynamics with concentric circles. Concentric circles can be amazing tools for organizing your brand your brand’s community as well.
And like any concentric circles, we start on the inside circle that represents your employees. How you can transform those employees into better, more effective brand ambassadors? That’s an important place to start because too often we jump all the way out to the outer circle: prospective customers.
What your employees do and how they comport themselves is so important. Case in point: we just talked about United Airlines, where employees delivering service were a little questionable.
Another example is from a brand that I love. This brand took a controversy and turned around into an opportunity for them to learn in the employee circle of their community; Starbucks recently came under fire for having two black men arrested. Instead of the traditional crisis response or trying to just advertise over it, they chose to embrace diversity and do something much harder. They’re shutting down their shops for a day to engage in training to help avoid issues like this.
Taking care of the inner circle means making sure that your employees are living the brand in everything that they say and do.
Colin Finkle: Starbucks handled that crisis as well as possible. Everybody who’s been married for more than five minutes knows that the first step to resolving an argument is saying: “what I did was wrong, I’ve learned, and will do better next time.”
Whereas these brands seem to stay on their haunches and just say: “you know, there was no mistake here. It was just an unfortunate event.” We interact with brands in the same way we do with people, and if a person acted this way, we would assume this is going to happen again because the behavior is a result of who they are.
Nick Westergaard: I agree with everything you just said. And honestly, I don’t know if Starbucks enjoys when people talk about what was a bad day for them so much, but I think the way they handled it is so commendable and it’s so easy to forget when all we talk about these train wrecks like United.
But they’re doing the hard stuff; not only closing shops for a day of training but that first statement that they made is so unlike most of the other carefully parsed corporate speak. “We are reviewing the situation and certainly wouldn’t want it to happen again.” I’m paraphrasing, but I feel like I’m very much within the ballpark. They basically said: “this is bad we need to fix it.”
So often it’s the real connection in that sort of response that I talk about Brand Now. In moments of crisis management, what we’re looking for is just a real human response and saying: “wow, we messed up we’re gonna try to do better.” You’re not even committing to anything yet, but that’s still scary for some.
Colin Finkle: We are hard-wired to have relationships with people. And everything that makes branding work is because of that wiring. That’s why brands have personality. But then brands behave in ways you wouldn’t put up with if they were a person. It’s just unfortunate. But, opportunities emerge when everybody’s doing the same thing. So hats off to Starbucks for bucking the trend and taking a risk there.
Sorry, I derailed you regarding a brand’s concentric circles of community.
Nick Westergaard: Now before we jump to the outer circles. I also point out that there isn’t forgotten middle circle, the ones that help you deliver your service. Those are your strategic partners, vendors, other alliances you might have.
A great example of this is IKEA. In states where IKEA doesn’t have a store, they have shipping partners. But those shipping partners are all trained on what IKEA calls “the IKEA way,” so they are able to deliver that service in a way that is consistent with the rest of the IKEA brand.
So if we start on the inside with employees, we work out to our strategic partners and vendors, we will finally at the outer circle which is the customers. This is the circle we focus on but too often we think about our customers too homogeneously.
First, the innermost circle is your best customers; how can you treat them differently? How can you bring them into the fold and make them better brand ambassadors? This is just like what we’re trying to do with our employees.
Prospects: “[T]hose imaginary people, all the way out on the periphery [of the brand], are the people that were thinking about first.”
In the next circle, we have our more transactional customers, and the outermost circle we have our prospects. I bring the prospects up at the very end, because too often those imaginary people, all the way on the outside, all the way out on the periphery, are the people that were thinking about first. And we haven’t thought about any of the people that are in our business day in, day out: our employees, vendors and those best customers that we’re interacting with constantly. They’re a smaller group and sometimes it’s scary to think about that smaller group because it feels like an off sample that we shouldn’t be taking. Those are a great group to get your arms around and embrace as you think about your organization’s people power.
Colin Finkle: Well, it’s a powerful model because it can be a little daunting when you think of converting a cold prospect into your best customer. But it seems somehow easier to take someone from one circle and moving them into the core of your brand, closer to the commitment level that your employees and vendors hopefully have. That feels a lot more attainable. It seems to be easier to make a prospect into a transactional customer to make your transactional customers into your best customers.
Nick Westergaard: Well yeah, anything sounds daunting when you look at it from point A to point Z. But if you think about A to B, to C, to D to all those different steps, it becomes something that feels much more doable.
Colin Finkle: One of the most powerful things I have my clients do is take an inventory of their touch points, and they end up finding something that they may have missed or may have thought was unimportant, which actually can be quite a delightful piece of their brand.
You have some examples of touch points the brands in your book have leveraged in fun and unique ways. Can you elaborate on some of those?
Nick Westergaard: Sure. There are many different touch points, and it can be dangerous to get into kind of checklist land with all the different brand touch points. You need to think about: what are what touchpoints are most important for your brand?
And that gets back to understanding who you are, what you stand for, what service you’re providing and what position in the hearts and minds of your customers you occupy.
For example, Zappos is not just about selling shoes online. It is about providing an exceptional level of customer service. Their phone calls with their sales reps or customer service reps are legendary. They’ll stay on the phone with you while you’re putting something on, and talk through different colors, different things.
But they also do the same thing via email. Customer service emails aren’t a marketing touch point people think about a great deal.
When I had a sole on a pair of boots of mine start to peel off, I sent them an email because that’s the channel that was convenient for me. They got back this delightful email, which I include in the book because it was such a fun moment. It connected to Zappo’s good service.
Most of the time, it is an awful experience when you have to return something to a company (that is not Zappos). A defective product is already an awful experience for you as a customer, but a lot of times they say “go find the box.” If it was a week ago, I have already broken down and recycled that box. Then they say “go print off this piece of paper, then cut out the return shipping label, then look for some tape to fix it to the shipping container, label the thing, and then go find a drop box.” And hopefully, it’s a big enough UPS drop box to be able to fit the shoe box back into. So there’s all this work.
In contrast, Zappos lead off with: “hey, you’ve been through enough, just keep the defective merchandise.” So that’s a great win, but then they add on there: “feel free to keep it, donate it or turn it into an art project.” And that is maybe not the most hilarious joke in the world, but it made me laugh at the moment. It brought a smile to my face because I thought: not only did they turn this into a great customer service experience, they also brought a smile to my face. So hats off to Zappos and that interesting touch point that was a simple customer service email.
Colin Finkle: Reading through your book, I enjoyed going through all the case studies. I’m happy when I see case studies and books because it gets us out of the theoretical and into what actually what actually is working in the real world.
In all the case studies, there seems to be a moment where the company decides not to do something that doesn’t make the perfect business sense, but it makes perfect human sense
Nick Westergaard: That was that was definitely a theme that popped up.
There is a story I share about Bark Box. They had some fun in selling dog toys and appealing to dog owners, or as Bark Box call them: “dog parents,” which is an important part of their brand DNA.
Most social media calendars have “Throwback Thursdays.” They thought about “Hump Day” in the context of the workplace means one thing, but if your business is dogs, then “Hump Day” might inspire something more… creatively visual.
Some people might raise an eyebrow at that idea, and the people at Bark Box thought “we’re gonna hear about this. Some people are not going to be happy if we show photos of dogs enjoying hump day as a dog might.” But they also said: “it makes us laugh. And if it makes us laugh, then there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to make our customers laugh, too.”
It’s one of those leap-of-faith moments. Some people might be listening to that and think: “oh, my gosh, that sounds like a horrible idea. All the more reason not to do it.” But you can find a standout moment by taking a chance like that.
Colin Finkle: One of those moments I remember clearly from your book is the Coldwell Banker story. After the San Francisco earthquake, there was all of these real estate firms playing on people’s fears and capitalizing on the volatility in the market. Meanwhile, Coldwell Banker got their footing by saying: “no, we’re going to help people out who are having a tough time, even if it’s not the best thing for the bottom line.”
Nick Westergaard: Yeah, I love their brand storybook, where they share that story with every employee on day one. It’s another good example of the creative choices we’ve talked about; zigging when others are zagging.
In the wake of the earthquake, everybody in real estate was acting pretty shady in San Francisco. And that would have been the easier thing for Coldwell Banker to do; it’s what everybody else is doing. It would have been the faster buck to make, but they decided to do something different. And I think that’s why we’re sitting here today, a hundred years later, talking about Coldwell Banker. They still exist while those other shady firm’s didn’t survive.
Colin Finkle: Okay, speaking of brands that people are passionate about, who is your ultimate Star Trek Enterprise captain?
Nick Westergaard: I saw this in your in your pre-show questions. And I feel like it might have had a parenthetical saying something like: “there’s only one answer.”
Kirk and Picard are so wonderful because we want to be like both of them. We both want to be like Kirk some days, and we want to be like Picard other days. We want to charge ahead and be the one that gets into the fight and makes the bold decisions, like Kirk. And, we also like being the thinker, too, like Picard.
The original series is my favorite for the most part. It is so great because, though there was a bigger crew, it was really a show about Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. And I think that those three personalities, we’ve all got rattling around up here. I was a psych major, so I probably overthought who was the Id, Ego and Super-ego.
Colin Finkle: I like your little hedge by naming both captains. The correct answer is Picard, by the way.
Well, the correct answer for me. I know there are plenty of people with different opinions in the world, and those people are free to be wrong.
Nick Westergaard: Well, I I could have gone with my with my pivot, asked about first officers, but that’s tough as well because I don’t know if I could decide between Spock and Riker. Riker is my celebrity doppelganger, so.
Colin Finkle: It must be nice to have a celebrity doppelganger because they soften the market for you can. You have a good impression with people right off the bat. Like: “hey, you weren’t you the first officer on the enterprise?”
Nick Westergaard: I wish. I’m just in branding and marketing.
Colin Finkle: What other advice would you have for a fellow marketer, a business owner to that’s fighting the good fight:
Nick Westergaard: There’s one simple set of questions that you can ask that is incredibly instructive: “where are you now and where do you want to be?”
It is always helpful in getting you from point A to point B. It is also a useful way to think about branding. A lot of us think about branding as a discrete task. We take part in it, it’s done, we move on to the next thing, we figure out Snapchat, or podcasting or something else. But branding is really like a flag that we plant off in the distance that we are always striving towards.
Asking yourself “where am I now” is key because you know if you’re on-brand or off-brand, and if you are off-brand, you also know what direction you need to move towards as well.
Colin Finkle: So if people want to discuss the book with you, or stay in touch, where can they reach out? Where can they follow you?
Nick Westergaard: I am Nick Westergaard, and that’s Westergaard with two A’s on most social networks.
You can also go to NickWestergaard.com. Again, two As for the price of one. And if spelling Westergaard is challenging, then I would direct you to BrandNowBook.com
Colin Finkle
Colin Finkle is a brand marketer and designer with 14 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies, and now passionately helps Canadian entrepreneurs and public figures at the brand marketing agency, Nordeau. You can see his work at ColinFinkle.com
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365 new coronavirus cases in Minnesota; death toll surpasses 300
197 of the deaths are from Hennepin County.
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A single-day record 365 new coronavirus cases were confirmed Monday by the Minnesota Department of Health, bringing the total number of positive COVID-19 tests since March 6 to 4,181. The previous single-day high was 261 on April 25.
Of those positive tests, 301 patients have died – an increase of 15 from Monday's update. More than 1,900 patients have recovered from the virus.
There were 2,561 tests conducted in the 24 hours that ended 4 p.m. Monday, which comes amid a ramp-up of the state's testing capability and as such we're seeing higher numbers of cases. It's the sixth straight day the state has conducted at least 2,200 tests.
A collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota is expected to have the state testing 20,000 patients per day within 2-4 weeks. Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said last week not to be surprised if the number of confirmed cases in a single day reaches 1,000 as testing is rolled out.
Confirmed cases: 4,181 (up from 3,816)
Deaths: 301 (up from 286)
Total hospitalized: 912 (up from 861)
Still hospitalized: 314 (up from 292)
Patients in intensive care: 120 (down from 122).
Patient recoveries: 1,912 (up from 1,842).
Hennepin County has had 193 deaths from 1,524 confirmed cases to lead the state, but the second-leading county for positive tests is Nobles County, which has seen its case total leap to 477 from an outbreak at a now-closed JBS pork plant in Worthington.
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Because of widespread community transmission, there are many more assumed cases of COVID-19 – possibly 100 times the number of confirmed cases – that thus far have not been formally diagnosed because of testing limitations.
The age range for confirmed cases has been as young as 4 weeks old to 109 years old, with a median age of 51, while the average age of persons who have died from the disease is 83. The youngest person to die from the disease in Minnesota was 44 years old.
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Coronavirus death toll in Minnesota surpasses 500
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Coronavirus death toll in Minnesota rises by 13 Sunday
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17 more deaths from coronavirus in MN is new single-day high
All confirmed cases and deaths are from the latest reporting period, which ended at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Monday update: 14 more deaths, 214 new cases of coronavirus in MN
More than 1,800 patients have recovered from the disease in Minnesota.
11 more dead as Minnesota's coronavirus death toll reaches 50
The data is as of 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Sunday update: 28 more dead from coronavirus in Minnesota
Hennepin County has had 177 deaths from 1,332 confirmed cases.
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Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition
Okay, it’s go time. A few seasonal stats for your perusal:
For Georgia’s defense, it’s déjà vu all over again. Missouri and Mississippi are one and two in the conference in offensive pass yardage. Missouri and Mississippi are the SEC’s twelfth and thirteenth ranked teams in offensive rushing yardage. These are both pass first and ask questions later offenses. Missouri got off to a quick start last week throwing the ball all over creation and it’s reasonable to expect Ole Miss to do the same. How Georgia deploys its safeties in the first half could be a big deal; Lock had a much rougher go of things after Tucker gave Briscoe safety help on his side of the field in the game’s second half.
Yeah, it would be nice indeed if Georgia’s defense racked up a few sacks today. They’re next to last in the SEC in that department. What I’m really curious to see, though, is how the inside linebackers hold up. Between Kelly’s threat to run and Evan Engram, they’ll really be challenged.
One thing’s pretty certain: if either team gets in the red zone, look for a score. The Rebels defense is 14 of 14 there; Georgia isn’t doing much better at nine of ten. (It’s worth noting that Ole Miss’ offense is a little better at converting than Georgia’s.)
For Georgia’s offense, at first glance, things look tougher this week, as Mississippi is fourth in the SEC in defensive passing yards, compared to Missouri at thirteenth. But when you scratch the surface and look at defensive passer rating, it’s a different story: Missouri is fourth and Ole Miss is twelfth. Ole Miss is the only team in the conference without an interception. Neither team’s run defense has been stellar so far, although Mississippi’s has had it tougher. That being said, Missouri did pretty well loading the box last week. It’s not unreasonable to expect Ole Miss to come out the same way. Chaney and Eason have to make them pay for that, or it’s gonna be a long day.
In other words, expect this game to look a lot like last week’s, with one big difference. Ole Miss’ offense has a lot more experience in its offensive system than Missouri’s did. It’s hard to see how Georgia’s defense doesn’t face some of the same struggles it had in the first half in Columbia. If we can expect the Rebels’ defense to sell out against Chubb and Company, is it reasonable to think Georgia’s defense makes a similar decision with regard to Kelly?
You’ll notice one thing I haven’t mentioned is special teams. If I don’t mention them in tomorrow’s Observations post, it will have been a good day. Unfortunately, I expect them to merit a bullet point or two.
I wrote yesterday that I don’t have a good feeling about this game. I don’t think Georgia is going to be able to maintain the time of possession advantage that’s help power it through its three wins and without doing so, I think Ole Miss, with its more dynamic offense, wins and covers. Call it a ten-point difference. Sure hope I’m wrong.
Consider this your game day comment thread home.
414 responses to “Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition”
I don’t understand all the angst. This is Old Missy. Nothing to see here. Dawgs win, as usual. Let’s look ahead to UT.
Hey, that worked against Nicholls. Barely.
But we did win, amirite?! Look, the staff knows they have to get Chubb going in this one. He’ll have 55 touches if necessary. The upgrade to our coaching staff is on D who know OM well. Take the crowd out early and Eason will be fine. Early stops on D and first score by Dawgs and OM will lay down.
Surprise star of the game…Reggie Davis who has been open deep but underthrown. I expect Chaney sees some misdirection with IMac that will get Davis in single coverage with no safety help for our first TD.
“I’ve got a feeling about this.” /wagging finger.
As my mom used to say, from your lips to Gawd’s ear.
…or we get stomped. Sighhhhhhhhhhh……
86BONE
Are you watching the game???
From OC to dreadlock Jones in the defensive backfield…we look like ASS
You just pissed off ASS
By the way, reports are that Brice Ramsey didn’t make the trip. PAWWWLLL, who’s the back up punter?
Biggest thing I’m looking for is a general question on offense.
Will we see some significant wrinkles in our offense to throw Ole Miss off and especially to give Chubb some room to work? Or is Smart’s/Cheney’s plan just to show what’s already been done and count on us being more physical and executing better?
Dolly Llama
Man, Ramsey must be an interesting kid to coach.
He is hurt.
I don’t think Dolly meant it as mean as it sounded. 😉
I took an extra dose of Glucosamine sulphate this morning…I expect to spend a lot of time on my knees.
Because, yes, Aus, it IS ole Missy.
This may be the most important game in the history of Georgia history.
Hang on to yer hats.
Bah. The Ole Miss ship gonna get sunk in the wake of the turning battleship.
It’s too quiet in here.
If CMR was our coach no way we win today….
Sure, and Kirby is gonna make Georgia great again…aight?
RIght on the money. The halftime score is proof we will win a NC soon.
Hunker down!
Pretty good defensive series down there…hard to get to the keyboard from this position.
fooled him.
That was a freshman mistake.
Need to quit the damn false starts.
Going to be long 3.5 hours
Mary Kate Danaher
Stay calm and Chubb…
we’re starting to move em a little.
We are but that 3rd down call was atrocious.
Again the 3rd down fall is awful.
Dont you dare quit on them Goddammit!!!
I’ll quit when I die. Until then all Dawg!!! 24/7/365.25
I’ll never quit on em’, but what we are seeing today is piss poor management of a top tier program by an administration that was given the benefit of the doubt for far too long.
I hope those that put us here lose every fucking game they ever play,that includes Georgia tech and whatever the Colorado equivalent of that is and fuck you karma Bitchez.
Eason is a gamer, they are out classed and playing with heart. I may drive to Athens tomorrow and buy a Kirby Smart jersey even if I have to have it custom made.
Peace brothers, I’m out.
Lines of scrimmage.
We can not run block. We can not rush the passer. We are toast.
I’m sticking with 8-4. Not changing my mind, no sir.
Just turned the game on and you guys are down 17-0.
Based on what I’ve seen this year, you’ve got ’em right where you want ’em.
I expect UGA to hammer UM in the second half.
You’re very generous..but I ain’t holding my breath.
Totally dominated in 1st qtr. Unable to convert 3rd and short woes continue.
Fire Bobo
Smart called Nicky for advice. “Let’em get a big lead, then they’ll fold.”
Then Nicky laughed after he hung up. “That’s for Maurice, kid”.
Also good to see the D arm flapping again. Sort of missed that.
That’s a pretty good tournament they got going on at East Lake. There’s so many commercials during this game I’m catching a lot of golf..
That, and the game isn’t that good.
Chaney needs to quit trying to be cute. We start leaning on them and we start chucking it again instead. Punch them in the mouth and get back in this.
Cute is all he has. We have no running game.
I saw running game on the last drive. We started moving moving them.
We are 3-8 field goals…jesus How can this fucking be?
3 and 5 with no kicker in scoring territory and we throw? WTF!!!
May as well forget FG’s. Inside opponents 40 is 4 down territory, on the upside Blankenship had good form.
lostdawg3
Gawd do we need a kicker! Lord have mercy on the Dawgs right now!!
I don’t think we ought to attempt another field goal all season.
Glad to see the days of not showing up for important games are gone. And who needs a scholarship kicker anyway.
Eason 3-10
With a pick 6.
Best D he has seen to date and of course no OL
Oh well. Wait until next year…to try a FG.
Eason seems to be overthrowing. Too high and/or too hard.
Off his back foot because rushers are in his face.
a 35 yard punt.
Wasted possession. If we’re gonna chuck n duck throw it long. Please
I wish I could say I am shocked.
Yep want and expect to win but not the least bit shocked
kevinsauer
if that’s the kinda day it’s going to be
Welp, I’m outta here. Might as well enjoyed the nice day outside.
This is worse than FSU’s performance st Louisville.
A LOT worse.
Oh boy. This could get ugly. Buckle up.
Could?!
We need new coaches.
That wedding is looking better and better.
Ironically, I am at a wedding in Cornelia. Watching this fluster cluck on a 20″ motel room TV and contemplating cracking open this bottle of Buffalo Trace now.
Briscoe gets beat once again and 7 can’t tackle with a wide open chance for a sack. Guess that cost him a cool million on his contract
This has been coming for three games. We have so many problems its almost laughable.
There’s the deep throw I was worried about. So far this is pretty much the definition of us failing in every facet of the game. Let’s see if we can regroup and make a game of it.
Not today I am afraid. Hope I eat those words later but with those big Ole Miss wr’s and getting whipped on both los’s not going to happen.
Athens has a very good Harley dealer. 😀
Punter has the longest completion of the game
D as in Dawg
Here’s where we stand. We are as good as a very good mid major team. Weaker than decent opponents in almost every aspect of the game. Way overachieving at 3-0. Light years from being competitive in big games.
3 perfect throws. 3 drops. Pitiful….
Two of which would have scored.
RedHotChiliDawg
How the fuck do we drop three passes in a row!
Some days are just like this. At halftime, this team will have to ask themselves, “is this who we are?”. Young team. young QB and the roof caving in. The faked punt might help. Oh well, dropped TD pass.
Just dropped 3rd and 8. Just dropped another one. Imac is trying to catch the ball with his body instead of his hands..the ball he caught to beat Mizzo was with his body and he was lucky to hang on to it. A receiver coach should not let a player use his body first to catch the ball. Gotta use those hands.
SONS OF BITCHES! CATCH THE MF FOOTBALL.
I’ve never, ever seen worse receiving.
Nice really nice. We’ll see if we keep fighting here. Show some character guys!
The wide receiver coach sucks.
He needs to tell them to catch it right? Cause coachin’.
Your right the whole receiving corp sucks.
We do miss Ball and BMac.
Ok…here is where we score a quick 21 before the half….
garageflowers
It is imperative that McElroy quit saying “imperative”.
A sack would of been nice instead we start at the 3
Two sweeps, two big gains. This is not rocket science.
Came into today not expecting a win, which is fine. Even imagined it could get ugly, which is has. The only thing worth watching for the rest of the day is what halftime adjustments are made, what type of fire is brought, who asks themselves if they’re going to finish of the 60 minutes. I mean really, what else do we have to look for in the 2H?
Well, we COULD make a field goal.
i thought about that. even texted a friend saying we could work on our kicking game perhaps but..
no. no i don’t think so.
Chubb just tweaked something.
ankle I think
Left ankle or foot
Looks like an ankle for Chubb and looked pretty painful.
My god……. I didn’t expect us to win this game, but this is already looking far worse and far uglier than I feared. 😦
Still don’t understand how Long got the punting job over Ramsey.
Long is more accurate throwing the football.
Read that Ramsey is hurt. Good to see the fake worked without him.
Let’s just work on blocking for the rest of the game. We can’t even seem to get players into blocking lanes.
‘Tis a Charley Foxtrot. We’ve left at least 10 to 17 points on the field, though.
Possibly the worst 1st half of UGA football in history.
counterpoint. bama 08
Not any more.
retracted
Maybe. That one was at home, which hurt..but this looks particularly disturbing.
It was 31-0 at the half that game too. If we can get the same final of 41-30, I would take it.
No way this offense scores 30 in one half
Almost feels like no way they can score 30 in a game … Oh, yeah, they haven’t done it the last 2 games including one against a bad FCS opponent.
I thought Nickels was the worst have seen in 50 years of watching Ga football.
and…they get the ball to start the second half.
Will we able to kick into the the end zone?
the way it’s going, this will likely be our only shot
If CMR were the coach it would be 62-0.
(Sorry. Had to do it.)
You beat me to it.
Nah…I doubt we would be that far ahead. (Sorry. Had to do it.)
Oh well. I have yard work to do.
And I have moonshine to drink
31-0 we got em just where we want em 🙂
Long for QB!!!! He’s 1/1 for 35 or so yards.
Shameful. Just shameful.
At least we expected this
I expected to lose, not be completely uncompetitive
really. I was sure we were done looking like we were totally unprepared for a big game. We look like a bunch of guys who never saw a football before.
Dude, we were closer to ole miss record of 1-2 than 3-0. How could you not see this coming?
Well, most of us did. Pretty sure Derek predicted an upset. Because, apparently, he didn’t see the first three games.
I did….. Dropped passes, shitty 3rd down calls, sprained ankle oh my.
This looks like a pickup game between a college and a high school.
Wayne the
Man! That was a great little princess birthday party! What’d I miss?
Was this the lay an egg look totally unprepared complete no show? It’s the Georgia way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad to say, our boys look ready to pack it in.
We actually are this bad.
I think I’ll go play in a tennis tournament. I’m glad I didn’t fork out $95 for this……………….Ugh!
Glad I sold my tickets to my neighbor 🙂
Your neighbor will be blowing his leaves in your yard for a while now.
That’s awesome. We continue to be a laughing stock. Our receivers and db’s are as bad as I’ve ever seen. Ever! I’ve defended Chaney but I’m starting to think he’s an idiot. OL new verse, same as the first. I don’t see how this can be repaired.
Oh it can be repaired just 2-3 years of recruiting the right players and maybe in year 4 we may win the East.
That’s what it would take … unless we went after a mini-Saban and got a Mus°##%#mp. God forbid.
What was that old complaint about not being able to beat a good team. Kirby hasn’t got Bama guys anymore and we won’t have them for at least two more years. Enjoy the 2nd half wish I could still drink.
Now Chubb is probably out for Tennessee
How would you compare this to the Bama ’08 first half? Worse? Better? Same? There’s a lot of variables that are different from one to the next, obviously.
About the same, in my opinion. Except for this one difference: Bama ’08 was a surprise. This is not.
Worse. Bama was a national championship team, not a team that was under .500 after blowing two massive leads. This OM team is decent, not a championship caliber team. Prior to today, couldn’t run the ball. Couldn’t stop the run. Turned it over like crazy. If you saw their first half today, they look like world beaters…but they aren’t. They will be lucky to finish 3rd in the west.
But 3rd in the West would still win the East by a long shot. Ole Miss may not contend for a national title, but they’re a lot better than people are inclined to give them credit for.
Don’t bother explaining that Turd. Its time for all of the shouldn’t have fired Richt guys to beat their chest about how Kirby is such a massive failure after 4 games.
That explanation is irrelevant to whether Alabama was better or worse than Ole Miss 2016.
It’s not who got fired. It’s who we have, and what we were told he would bring to the table. As in: Not this kind of woeful, completely outclassed performance
That wasn’t 81’s point. The comparison was between Ole Miss 2016 and Alabama 2008. Might as well respond by saying the 2015 Golden State Warriors would be second to the 1972 Lakers.
Not worse. You can’t judge the game on what Alabama had and ignore our team. In 2008, we had Stafford, Green, and Moreno. We had way more talent on the OL, as well. So sure, Ole Miss isn’t as good as Alabama ’08, but we had a hell of a lot more talent then than we do now. So yeah, this loss is not worse than the blackout funeral.
About the same, all things considered. We were preseason no. 1 in ’08 and had serious national-championship aspirations going into the Bama game, so the disappointment was greater in that game, especially since we were at home.
However, that Bama team was a lot better than this Ole Miss team, and we look shockingly uncompetitive.
I’d say Bama ’08 was worse. Our team started the year #1, had the #1 overall draft pick in his junior year, played at home in a night game in an intense environment, and Saban Bama wasn’t quite the machine it is today.
That Georgia team was a helluva lot more talented than this Georgia team.
This^^^
I honestly do not understand how anyone thought something different was going to happen today. If you’d paid any attention during the first 3 games, you could see this coming from a mile away.
We’re a good football team … everywhere except where it matters most: at the line of scrimmage. So we’ll eek out wins against mediocre teams, and lose handily to anyone even remotely competent.
And don’t look now, but we may have just lost Chubb for a little while. Hope everyone’s looking forward to basketball season.
Well there is always Douglas because I don’t see Holyfield playing
Holyfield played as well as Herrien. Our RBs were a bright spot today.
We are not good at receiver or DB. Not even close. Otherwise, right on.
In terms of talent, those groups really aren’t that bad. Especially when you throw in this ridiculous group of TEs. We shouldn’t have any trouble passing the ball. But they can’t get any separation, which I attribute more to coaching than anything else. And Eason’s only got about a half-second to throw the ball because of our shit-stain of an OL. With a great OL, I don’t think anyone would be complaining about our receivers. We need more size, sure, but Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars.
And our DB group isn’t bad either. Sanders, Parrish, Davis, and Smith have all played very well. And let’s not forget that Sanders, Parrish, and Davis were all part of the best passing defense in the SEC last year. But here, too, they’ve looked worse than they really are because our DL has yet to get any pressure on an opposing QB. Even the best DB group in the country will look mediocre when they’ve got to defend for 5+ seconds every single play. Lorenzo Carter is one of the biggest disappointments in recent memory.
Good points. But Ole Miss receivers look head and shoulders and another man on his shoulders above ours. Briscoe is getting abused and perhaps that’s skewing my take. Up front is where it all begins and we are late for the party.
There is nothing wrong with our talent–I don’t care what any of the TV talking heads say. It’s bad coaching that is the problem.
I think a lot of people expected our clear shortcomings to get fully exposed today. Personally, i was hoping that one of those shortcomings would have a good day, like the run blocking…
Either way, i think most reasonable fans were waiting for the other shoe to drop. it’s just disappointing that it’s happening in such an exaggerated fashion.
Turd, I disagree. We are bad in the kicking game, we lack separation receivers, in addition to the LOS problems. Plus it is obvious to me we are still dealing with the new staff and new system, etc.
I am hard pressed to say this is a good football team.
I’ll give you that the kicking game is garbage. But on offense and defense, we’re actually a very talented football team.
We’ve got more talent at TE than just about any team in the country. Our receivers aren’t getting any separation (which I attribute more to coaching), and we could use a little more size at that position. But Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars. Of course, we’ve got loads of talent at RB as well. And he may be a freshman, but Eason’s got all the potential in the world. So I’m not saying we’re great, but we are a good team on offense … just not on the offensive line. This offensive line is the worst I’ve seen in a long, long time.
We had one of the best defenses in the SEC last season, and the #1 passing defense in the conference. The secondary is good. Again, not great, but certainly good. But as I explain above, they’ve looked worse than they really are because the DL isn’t putting any pressure whatsoever on opposing QBs.
If we were better on either side of the line, we’d immediately be better everywhere else.
This. No defensive backfield can hold up when there is zero pressure on QB. Do we even have a sack as a team this year? Honest question.
The #1 Pass Defense in the nation is why we have the phrase, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics”. Our pass defense was not great last year. I have written about this several times. Georgia Southern and tech are triple-option teams. Auburn is basically an option team. USCe, Mizzou, Vandy, and Kentucky were horrible offenses. Florida had lost their QB by the time they played us.
The best passing team we played was Bama at #62. Number 2 was Kentucky at #79. We played 5 of the bottom 20 passing teams. Look at our opponents offensive numbers. Last years secondary, like this years, was above average but not great.
Ok, we’re going to play this silly game of “proving our manhood” by shoving Chubb into the line until it works. Had a feeling Davis could be the key WR, but Eason has no time to set and throw. Mental mistakes everywhere, so feel free to blame that on ( insert coach’s name here ). The D looks as lost as ever. Somebody get Briscoe a Southwest Airlines ticket…”Wanna get away?” Rodrigo should give his eyewear to Hamm..maybe that will work.
Please, for f’s sake, treat the 2nd half as a new game. Work on things that need help and don’t get Eason killed or Chubb banged up. Find out who is buying in to the process. Come away with something. No reason at all to let this be our first steps of wandering into the desert.
Where’s the wedding? Open bar??
“Georgia has to get to the 15 to be in field goal range”.
Now the TV guys are getting in on the fun.
thats generous. didn’t we miss a 23 yarder last week?
The frustrating thing is that we had two chances to get into this. On one the play calling on 3rd down was awful. The second 16 and 2 went all butterfingers.
7 needs to finish on Kelly btw.
im not sure any one or two plays really would have changed the outcome of this half. i think it was predestined for us to get beat down, even if we did make some catches or tackles. this was and is going to happen
Ok. I’m going to say that getting to 17-7 changes things but you have whatever reality you want.
we’re getting beat on both lines. burned at corner. zero kicking game. can’t make the open tackles on CK. you get it to 17-7 and those impurities are still there and sink us throughout the rest of the game.
Like I said earlier. I thought at 17-0 we started to open up the running game and then they put Chubb at FB and on another third down tried to throw instead of trying to make it 4th and short.
Then we decided not to catch the ball at 24-0. I think TDs in either spot helps.
agreed. helps. but doesn’t alter this game.
In infinite parallel realities with infinite variations of outcomes on plays this game is getting played out and we’re still losing 99% of them
Calm down Derek. He wasn’t insulting you.
At my bac level I can do whatever I want!!!!
heh. i don’t disagree with that general sentiment of a few plays here and there could alter the game cadence and momentum and who knows from there – i just disagree with that today. i don’t think there’s anything we’re doing right with the sole exceptions of executing a fake punt and that one drive where we got the run game going. so what are we supposed to do? feed the rock down 17? down 24? down 31? down 38?… fake punts on first down?
7 has blown his chances today along with a couple of million on his contract
The first chance we had to be in this game came to an end the first week in December when The J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics refused tomloomfor an experienced head coach.
“to look for”
Carter is turning into a colossal disappointment. I guess he was taking advantage of Floyd and Jenkins.
Nowhere to go but up or out for these coaches and players. Play the second half with class.
TOUCHBACK!!!
They are who we thought they were.
Nice, lol
Talk about o linemen being downfield on a throw….I thought they were going to call it this year.
Second half is on and our colander of a defense is on the field.
Briscoe needs to sit the rest of the game
Whatever we are, we’re clearly not a team yet. Coaches or players.The cupboard wasn’t THIS bare.
Good God he kicked it 46 yards…..
I think its time to get online and buy something. Retail therapy.
Chaney is a terrible OC.
Hard to single out anyone. Everyone seems terrible at the moment. Hard to believe we don’t have a single O-lineman capable of executing a block.
I need to learn to listen when the Senator says he had a bad feeling about a game.
Now it’s just a matter of whether Hugh wants to embarrass us totally. I doubt we score given our kicking.
Hugh is going to get all he can because the lights are going out when the NCAA finishes with them. He’ll want a good resume when he flees Oxford for another school.
More than discouraging, just looks like we were clueless today as to what Miss would do on both sides of ball.
Lemme see, I am sure recruiting is going great….we got how many commits?
Maybe Richt wasn’t the problem, and maybe Kirby isn’t the answer. But that’s far too incendiary for this blog, so let’s be cool and just shift the topic to something that won’t create so much vitriol.
How about “A vote for Trump is worth it just to piss off liberals.”?
would it be fair to say it’s too early to make that call? at what point can we make that call? honest question.
It serves no purpose to look backwards. The question is now whether Kirby can diagnose the problems and be given the resources to correct them. That’s 2 – 3 seasons at a minimum.
Our Bowl team v Penn State looked better and our offense had more creativity
I guess we can safely say now we’re playing for next year. I said two weeks ago was either an aberration or the canary in the coal mine. Today officially gave us the answer. Other than possibly ULL, I don’t see a sure win left on the schedule and that includes USCe, UK and Vandy. The tech game may be a pillow fight for the Governor’s Cup.
12 players on field the second time. Guess that was Mark Richt’s fault.
I’ve never seen people take such pride in being right about how bad we are. The Georgia Way is alive and well
The pride is in your mind…nowhere else.
Remember what you said about FSU and Louisville?…that’s what we are looking at.
Well Hugh has spoken the humiliation will continue.
Hugh needs to make himself look great…He’s gone from OMs when the NCAA finishes with them.
I guess this may be the year to take my young grandkids on their first visit to Athens. Anybody want to sell four home tickets for a good cause and avoid some heartache?
It’s just bad. There is really not much else to be said. Everyone shares in the responsibility. But I must add that Chaney is an idiot. We are screwed with him running the O. I really believe that.
It figures he would get smart and run the ball when I said that. Of course, I doubt it’s Ole Miss 1st team out there.
illinidawg
Your are a fucking dope.
And you’re 13.
We just caught a pass!!! We just caught a pass!! Man-alive!
AND the refs threw their second penalty flag of the day against OM!!
We are to Ole Miss what Kent State is to Alabama, I guess.
Holy moly.
Not in an absolute and irrevocable sense. But this week we are.
Well Hugh let us have one.
WE SCORED! AND WE MADE THE EP!
And kicked the KO into the endzone for a touchback!
TD against 2nd string. We are cookin now
bryanandrewmartin
I mean, we’re pretty good except for offense, defense, and special teams
Good point. If we can just fix those aspects well be pretty good.
We can’t stop their second-team offense either. Defense has problems beyond lack of talent.
Who are we for in the FL/TN game? Aub/LSU?
I’m personally for Fl and LSU..I hate FL but I hate TN more. for personal reasons.
the meteors
I always root for the stadium to wash out into the river
I could care less
Old Miss’s miss on a 55 yard fg attempt was closer than our chip shots.
good lord its just the start of the 4th? will the game not END?
I’ll tune back in Monday for all the stories about our lack of talent.
Poor Eason. This is hard to watch.
Bet he wishes he had gone with Mark to the U. He’s got no line and no receivers.
In a couple of years, Miami’s line will suck just like this one
So much for halftime adjustments.
I thought we had a head coach now that yelled at players and showed emotion and stuff. That didn’t help?
Good thing MR and co. put so much emphasis on recruiting WRs and OL before he left.
So how does a coach like Kirby deal with this type of loss? Sure Alabama lost some games while he was there, but never like this. Does he know how to deal with a team that’s been brutally owned? Did he learn that from Nick?
Stay tuned, story at 11.
Next few minutes are pretty important. See if this new coaching staff can get some life back into the team…long season.
I guess Rocky did show up…
Roterhals
Snitker should manage the Braves next year, he’s earned it.
Did you see where Kevin Garnett retired?
I want to hear him explain why he’s kept the starters in, long after Ole Miss pulled theirs.
I’m sure that will go over well at a CKS press conference
So the assholes on this blog won’t be able to bitch about getting shut out.
Billy Mumphrey
Because the starters need as much work as the reserves?
vectordawg
We should nickname the offensive line the “Peter Principal” because they have reached their level of incompetency.
Onside kick, score. Repeat 5 times.
KIRBY’S A QUITTER!!!
Good drive. Glad Holyfield got in game.
Only time I got excited all day! He looked tough too…happy for the kid as he has worked very hard to get on the field.
Now we’ve done it. I fear Ga. Tech.
I’d take one of our shittiest defenders(it would be tough to choose) and have him knock Kelly out of the game with a late hit. Cheating POS. That or just have Carter “accidentally” nail Sleaze on the sideline. Cut of the head of the snake. Unfortunately you’d need a sniper to hit the bagmen up in the skyboxes.
Meds generally don’t work if you don’t take them regularly.
Nick Chubb, you’re the man. You deserve much better than this as a final season.
Reality is a bitch…. Out.
Yep…sho nuff.
ended the game on a 14-0 run. not bad, dawgs. not bad at all
Last year MR was mugging on Hugh Freese. This year Kirby got mugged.
I could not stomach the second half, but if our coach did not send #12 to go sit on the bus and cut his damn hair, I quit…
“cut his damn hair” Must be tough, you an out of work barber?
He didn’t and you won’t.
Point is the kid can’t tackle or look back for a ball in the air on coverage. He shows too much “softness”….needs to be benched for anyone that can fog a mirror…..surely we have someone that can compete
Congratulations fire-Richters. Good job. Your insecurities have manifested to an unproven “process” coach. Put your crayons away, Bobo is the next coach for UGA. Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
Hunkering Hank
You are a fucking moron
You are a dipshit
Which is it, a moron or a dipshit?
Thank you for that. Good to laugh.
Thank you, your feedback is invaluable to our institution. Please don’t stop being you.
It’s both!
Go hate somebody else!
Try to get and stay behind GEORGIA no matter the coach!
Hate? You are the one that called me a “fucking moron” and a “dipshit”. I propose you are the one with anger management issues. I assume we both love the Dawgs.
How ’bout em? Nothing sucks like big orange.
Just because I was not sure if you were changing your mind about him being a moron doesn’t mean I don’t support Georgia.
I said back in January that it’d only take one loss for the Richtophiles to pull some shit like this. Right on cue.
Remember the last time Richt went down 45-0?. Me neither.
It’s so good, I can’t even tell if you’re being serious, or if you’re just parodying those folks.
Richt would’ve lost today by 60+.
Congrats on predicting the hypothetical future. You’re so special.
W.T.F… You are literally predicting something as a fact. This is the world we live in…
Go buy some U gear and move on. Most of us have. Richtolytes who needs em. Old news history gone finished what part of that do you not understand.
As for Bobo he cannot win at CSU
I’m def rooting for CMR. If they aren’t playing UGA, I don’t see why any UGA fan wouldn’t.
I would love to see Eason with a CMR/Bobo influence. I think you think thsts an insult? Correct me if so.
Yeah …we’ll wouldn’t take one loss like this for the Richtophobes to start blaming CMC.
…see what I did there? 😉
You mean make yourself sound like a fucking idiot? Then yes, I see what you did there.
It took most of us several years (and in my case, more than a dozen years) to turn on Richt. But Chris here? One loss.
Do you even try to breathe out of your nose? I have a good ear and throat doctor if you want a reference.
Ok, I can say it…with feeling….Gooooooo Gators!!!!!!!
Now we know for sure what we all thought before. We do not have a lot of SEC level competitors. Is Kirby the answer? I hope so. We need big recruits and we need them everywhere… except maybe TE and RB. Let’s make the best of what’s left. Go Dawgs! Beat UT… Chattanooga. 🙊
I have to wonder — how did they all disappear in one year? Weren’t we still having ranked recruiting classes? That what we were hearing in the hinterlands.
Don’t know. I’m just trying to be positive and I’m new at it. We were pretty bad last year, too.
Gotta recruit along the lines. MR was enamored with the shiny, pretty toys.
And averaged 10 wins each season with them!
Yep but really ain’t got shit to show for it but an ongoing argument about whether we should have spiked the ball in the 2012 SECCG.
Sorry, we’ve been out-physicaled plenty in years past, but I can’t remember it like this. Something else is at play. Just not sure what.
I can’t help but read that with the heavy mouth breathing associated with the fire CMR crowd.
I’m one of them. I stuck with Richt for a long time before jumping ship. CKS has his work cut out for him. No doubt about that.
Congrats on jumping from the winningest coach in UGA history to an unproven Sabah disciple. If most people displayed 10% of the expectations they have for “their” football coach, this would be a better world, free of trailer parks and mouth breathing hypocrites.
Richt would’ve started Faton Bauta today, and lost by 60+.
Faton was playing for CSU today.
45-0. Any other anti Richt talking points you want to throw out to address this direct fact?
Final score was 45-14. I remember a 49-10 defeat at the hands of Florida in 2008. And we had Stafford, Moreno, and Green at that point, so the talent gap was a lot closer in that game. I’d say your wait is over.
Good for you. Note to self: Check with Chris before developing expectations. Also, Chris frowns on trailer park people and is intolerant of differing opinions. We would have whipped Ole Miss with CMR. Keep telling yourself that.
something, something, something…..annual bed-shitting…..can’t win big games….don’t show up ready to play…..something, something, something…
That was a shit show, y’all. Ole Miss should NEVER be that far ahead of UGA in football.
^ :youknowhesrightmorganfreemanmeme:
Did I just walk to Hell with a broke back, or watch another UGA football game……
This may be the (I sure hope) the lowpoint of Kirby’s time at Georgia. It’s certainly an opportune time to turn the corner, because I don’t see how it could get any worse. Georgia will still lose some (maybe a lot) of games this year, but not in this awful fashion.
How “The Most Georgia Thing Ever”, that this team would be this inept in the one year where everyone was pointing to how favorable the schedule is for it. Shit. All we had to do was field a pretty good team to take the East. Now it looks like we could finish 4th or 5th.
When Nicholls pushed us around, we shoulda seen the bad moon rising.
WE may need to stop and remember the old saying….
“Things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem”.
They almost couldn’t be.
Mediocre Dawg
We fired Mark Richt to get this crud?
I know, right? At least Richt would’ve had the good sense to start Faton Bauta today.
Couldn’t because he was playing for Co St. today.
Wonder if he was prepped for that game or just got tossed in.
Exactly. 10 wins a year in the SEC is a given. Any idiot can do it. Thank God Richt is gone and ruining Miami as we speak. They’ve looked awful this year.
Gosh, why limit that comment to one post when you can use it forever!
Welcome to America 2016. Look at our self elected politicians. FYI, Panama subsidies many ex-pat living expenses and have internet that can handle watch ESPN.
It may get crowded down there soon. Hot’er than hell, though.
Nahhhh…Poas. Costa Rica. This time of year you would be lighting a small fire in the fireplace at night. Tomorrow you’d be catching trout with a hand line and banana slice and eating them with eggs,and black beans.
Get in the mountains and you’ll never need A/C again. I was shocked the b&b we stayed at this year had high speed internet.
Diversify you investmens and never worry about US elections again.
Yea buddy….oh oh oh ok den
The Lord tells me he can get me out of my mess, but he’s pretty sure Bulldog Football is fucked!
I hope you all show up next week ready to back our team. They need their fans behind them. I loved Mark Richt but he is gone and neither those of us whous supported Richt or those wanted him fired know what the score would have been. I know the team will be working on catching the ball this week. Come ready to be loud next week and if you are negative give your tickets to someone who can be positive.
No no, the coaches are morons and the players have ling hair!!!
Great post Debby
Amen, all the bickering between the different coaching factions has gotten motherf@$#%€g ridiculous. Everyone needs to shut the hell up, take a deep breath, and quite being a bunch of whining babies. Was what happened to Richt right? Not Really. Is Kirby the answer? Too early to tell. Are we lacking in talent in a lot of areas? Oh hell yeah. Everyone needs to put their stupid agenda aside, and remember we all started reading this blog because we’re Dawg fans dammit! Remember that and let’s quit being assholes for a little bit huh?
Well there is at least one Richt fan
Who me? Nope, he lost me, for good, after Alabama last year. While I wasn’t screameing “Fire Richt!” all day, every day. I wasn’t sad to see him go. I was more in favor of hiring someone with HC experience though, but I will support Kirby until he’s had time enough to have fully implemented his system, with his players.
@gatriguy
Me too. If things are this bad in 2018, then it’ll be time to cut ties. But I believe he deserves a chance to get his own guys in the program.
No not you lol
I agree. I was in favor of getting rid of MR and probably got a little salty about it on here. I didn’t like what I saw today but it’s one game. And Ole Miss is honestly more talented on both lines and at WR. We all know that they pay players so why shouldn’t they be? Add in some questionable coaching decisions and you end up with a shit sandwich like we saw today. Who knows? Maybe we’ll beat the Vowels next week. Stranger things have happened.
Amen sister!
I will be there and will loudly cheere for my team to win.
I’m growing a beard
Well. That did not go well.
Next week is another game.
Like I stated yesterday Senator. Kinda silly speculating about the ” intangibles” when you don’t have the tangibles covered.
Late to the party, but my $0.02: Chubb and Trent would have started for Ole Miss today. That’s it. 2 out of 22 players.
I get it, no one wants to hear or believe that it is a talent issue. But the gap between us and Ole Miss was staggering. OL, WR, and DBs are as bad as they’ve been since the 90s.
It’s time to reset expectations. This rebuild is going to be longer than most people thought, and that was going to be the case regardless of who the coach is.
We are on our 3rd OC and 3rd DC in four years, and were going to be no matter who the coach is.
The talent level will be up again, but it’s simply going to take time and require patience.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/2/4/10914710/college-football-recruiting-improvement-tcu-baylor
Means nothing. Look at the distribution. Look at the 2013 class. Look at the talent that has just left the program. Plus, we were wrong on evaluation on a ton of those players. We have an OL that is atrocious, WR than can’t get separation, can’t block, can’t catch, and undersized, slow DBs that have lucked out by not facing a passing team in 2 years.
You can throw out those rankings, but I know what I saw. Aside from Chubb and Trent, who did you see that was better than their Ole Miss counterpart?
Good point. Bill Connelly is an idiot. Sure, he has his fancy statistics, but we’ve got the eye test. Everybody knows that Richt just used walk-ons for all of his teams. Thank God Smart brought in the greatest lineman in the country in Catalina. If we just had a few more like him, we would be sitting pretty.
Ok, we’ll see, won’t we? We see who all on this roster gets drafted.
Georgia has fared well in putting players in the NFL.
Yes, I’m aware. We’re talking about this particular team.
The DBs are fine. It is the same guys as last year. They are playing as well as they did last year. They are good but not great. When a QB makes a great throw into double coverage and the WR makes a great play, there isn’t much you can expect them to do. We will not see a group of WR like that for the rest of the season.
Yeah, our WRs are WAY too small. They can’t get separation. When they do, they keep dropping the ball. We have 3 commits: 6’2″, 6’3″, and 6’5″. We have probably 2 more slots open. Looking forward to Ridley being healthy. We need Wims to step up.
The OL is where the big problem is. We have an FCS LT, 3 Guards and a 3rd string DT as an OL. Pike is a quality Guard, but is a liability at RT. If we had a natural Center, we could make the line from left to right: Wynn, Kublanow, New Center, Pike, Catalina. That would be better but still less than good. It would be easier to get Catalina some TE help on the right side. We need to find a way to get Sims and Galliard the hell off of the field. Will one of the freshmen step up at Guard? Doesn’t look like it.
“You are never as good as they say you are when you win and never as bad as they say you are when you lose.” That old saying is still true. I am still hopeful that the Dawgs will salvage a respectable season and maybe even win a bowl. That said, I feel the worst I have ever felt about the UGA coaching staff since I started following Georgia football in 1964, This team wasn’t ready to play today–and that falls squarely on the coaching staff. Other than Schotty and CMR I thought our coaching staff last year was pretty damn good. So the powers that be fire CMR after a 10 win season because Kirby Smart (a “son of Georgia”) is about to get hired by South Carolina and we sure as hell don’t want that–the Gamecocks to get our Georgia Boy!! A helluva reason to make a coaching change. I was ready for CMR to be gone, too, but only if the suits hired a coach that would be an improvement. Instead of interviewing Gary Patterson, Tom Herman, or any other proven HC with an excellent track record we hired another Mark Richt–a career coordinator with no HC experience. Well guys, get ready for a couple of years of OJT for our vaunted new HC and his miserable staff of assistants. This staff is terrible. If someone had said to CKS that he can have the HC job but he would have to keep the old staff intact except for Schotty that would have been one thing. But to hire CKS and an entire staff of retreads is a little much to take. Get ready for Johnny Griffith redux. I hope not but it is looking more that way each game. Last season the Senator said that he didn’t want to fire CMR because he was afraid that B-M would f*ck up the hire for his replacement. I felt the same way and said so repeatedly. Boy, those B-M people sure are predictable.
Dude, today’s outcome would have been identical with no coaching change.
The talent difference jumped off the tv from the first 5 minutes. The outcome was inevitable.
Best team $$$ can buy outside of at RB.
Even schotty put Chubb and Sony on the field together. Marinate on that for a sec.
Could UT and Arky fans been right about Chaney?
Chaney is an empty size XXXXL parka.
Lol. +1
Sale was awful but your point is taken
Wow, it took 4 games for the split in the fan base to open back up. We got our @$$3$ handed to us today. I don’t know if it’s talent, coaching, culture or a mixture of all 3 into a witch’s brew of horrific proportions. I had this game as a loss because of home field and an edge at the most important on the field, quarterback. What this game spiraled into was the result of a mixture of coaching and remnants of culture. The coaches appear to be bull-headed about running between the tackles on early downs on offense and refusing to give the line help with rushing the passer (Senator, 3rd and Tucker is coming) in obvious passing situations. The culture of collapsing when things don’t go your way reared its ugly head in the 1st half. I don’t know what the fixes are, but I don’t get paid $3,750,000 a year to figure it out.
I honestly can’t imagine a scenario where the fanbase will be united again.
It’s a bloody mess.
The Richt faction needs to let it go and move on but they just have to say I told you so. Only thing that will shut them up is an SEC title.
I’d like to think so, but I just don’t know. I’m really afraid it’s going to be a split forever. Nothing short of an NC will ever reunite the fanbase.
I thought we had, but it’s as bad as it’s ever been.
Tri, if B-M had hired A first rate HC with experience who could bring a winning staff with him the fan base would be united. B-M choked on the hire. That is what you get when idiots grt to make the decisions. We’ll have to live with this for 2-3 more years then maybe those dopes will hire a real HC next time. What I saw today was Ray Goof all over again.
It is too soon to make those type of calls.
And you’ve determined this 4 games in?
No on BM hired would’ve united the fanbase-I think that’s pretty obvious. We still can’t agree on whether it was necessary or not.
93,000 people didn’t come to G-Day to see Ludicris. They came to watch a scrimmage and excited to see what was going to be different. The fan base including those referred to as Richtophiles or Richtophants wanted to see if this staff was going to move the needle. If you don’t think the fan base had come together, you wouldn’t have seen the dome field advantage we saw on Labor Day weekend.
Many people including the Mayor and myself wanted a true search for an EXPERIENCED head coach. I wasn’t a Tom Herman fan because I hadn’t thought he was at it long enough (I was wrong – the guy can flat coach). I wanted us to make David Shaw turn us and our Brinks trucks down.
I decided to give Kirby a chance when he was hired. He won the opening press conference. He kept together a really good recruiting class and improved it. He’s putting together a wonderful class for this year. He’s trying to instill a toughness into the team that has been lacking in that department for some time. He’s trying to balance winning now with developing a young QB that can be the cornerstone of the future. He has also talked down the talent on this team publicly to the point where I believe he has killed some of these guys’ confidence. He made some changes that I believe are a slap at the tradition here before him (the “dressy” DawgWalk and the elimination of bones as helmet stickers). He doesn’t appear to like interacting with the common folk and seems to take a “I don’t have time for this s—” approach with the Dawg Nation. Some of that works when you come to a place with a record of success. Some of that can blow up in your face if you aren’t successful.
It’s 4 games in. I don’t disagree about preferring an experienced coach, but it is what it is.
Have you seen Shaw and Stanford play? If you think the OL looks bad now, imagine what it would look like in Stanford’s offense.
It is what it is. Kirby is going to improve the overall talent level on the roster over the next 3-4 years. I have no doubt about that. Whether he can translate it to wins is going to play out over time.
But I do believe he’s going to have a much more complete, more talented roster going forward.
I know how Stanford plays. They also do it without 4 and 5 star players at every position but with guys who play hard, fundamentally sound, and limit mistakes. You don’t see Stanford’s classes at the top of recruiting rankings.
I agree … It’s 4 games in, and Kirby is going to get his fair shot. Most reasonable people weren’t expecting a championship this year even with Nick Chubb back. I’m willing to wait and see what happens, but if we see more performances like yesterday, Kirby is going to find his honeymoon to be over quickly. Once you’re on the hot seat, you never get off just the temperature changes.
Hey–the honeymoon is already over. The performance in Oxford did that.
Comments like this are exactly what I’m talking about.
I know some of these richtophants, and they are quite bizzare with quixotic at best thinking.
Kirby could win 3 nattys and they would still make excuses….hell they would probably say he did it with CMR’s roster.
Did Richt ever get behind 45-0? If not, then please don’t “compare” UGA factions. Thank you very much.
31-0 at home w preseason #1 team, #1 overall draft 3 first round draft picks.
35-0 USC 2012 with probably his most complete team
So no?
go buy some Miami stuff. That’s clearly where your loyalties are.
So you have no response. Please just articulate that ahead of time.
PS I’ll still donate to the Hartman Fund despite your recommendation
Richt got fired before he had to play with this shitstrom of a roster he created.
Today was an awful loss, I’m not arguing this. But, given the talent on this roster, to suggest it was worse than either of the games I mentioned is a stretch. Not to mention 2008 UF or 2011 LSU.
We’re not going to agree on it, it’s fine.
Go Dawgs! We may disagree on circumstances, but I’ll always buy a round for a fellow Dawg. I think Kirby can turn it around, but as he says, 6’7″ OTs don’t grow on trees.
Yup, Go Dawgs!
I hope things get better, and I think they can. I just don’t know if the fractured fanbase will let it happened. It’s just so divided.
I don’t think the fanbase is as fractured as you may think it is. As a “Richtophile” who associates with my own kind, I can gaurentee you I’ve never met anyone rooting against Smart.
We all want UGA to succeed, just see things in different ways.
God, I sincerely hope you’re right. I just have been completely disheartened the past 3 weeks.
I totally underestimated the amount of people ready to pounce as soon as things got rough.
85 players on scholly, 10 of those recruited by Kirby. U gear cheaper than Dawg gear so go get ya some.
Dude, Richt lost worse two time I can think of 49-10 to the Gators in 2008 and 41-10 to LSU in 2011. Kirby might never be worth a damn, but stop acting like today was the worst loss in program history.
Do you think today was a good day for the program? I’ll hang up and listen.
Did I say it was? Nope. Just pointing out the fact that we’ve gotten blown out worse.
I’d say it was about equal to trying to fight Bama in the tunnel and then losing by 28.
It was an awful day for the program, but guess what. I think UNC and Missouri are both better than a single team we beat last year.
Now it’s the “no championships, no peace” crowd on one side and the “why don’t you go cheer for the U” crowd on the other.
You’re right, gatriguy, it’s a mess, and the problem is there’s no one who is a leader that has time for this $#!+ to fix it. I’m officially worried Kirby is going to be so wedded to the Process that he’s going to waste every bit of goodwill with the fan base.
Truly the only thing that will fix it now is a CFP berth.
Unfortunately, ee, the guy who should be leading all factions is Greg McGarity. He damn sure isn’t the second coming of Joel Eaves.
It’s a mess. I thought we’d be better than this and all row in the same direction. I was wrong.
I can. A national title.
Derek Ross
Juwuan Briscoe looks way too much like Bryan Evans. Always getting beat, never targeting the ball, and not even making it a fight when the receiver catches it. Do we not have anyone that will at least win some lose some?
Briscoe/Parrish reminded me of Evans/Miller defensive backfield….awful!
I find it quite ironic that some of you who refused to be critical of CMR after years 5, 10, and 15 suddenly are impugning CKS to no end after a mere 4 games….with CMR’s roster to boot.
CMR utterly castrated this program, yet the Richtophants out there want to cast blame elsewhere in a shameless attempt to salvage the rep of their failed leader.
Want me to list some of CMR’s eggs after many years as HC? Give me a break.
Feel free. Just highlighting the fact that UGA hasn’t been boat raced like today since… before Richt.
Once upon a time, Richt was revered for his road game performance. Oh how that gets forgotten.
That was always a little bit of fool’s gold since he never had to play Florida on the road and they were his white whale.
But yeah, those days were awesome.
Richt certainly made mistakes as the UGa coach.
For the last 5 years I was told I liked mediocrity if I wanted Richt to be our coach. What I saw today in Oxford was not even mediocre.
It’s also ironic that the people who constantly trashed Richt after every loss now say “But you have to get behind Smart.”
Well, 15 years and 4 games are pretty comparable sample sizes.
Right. Funny how people conveniently keep forgetting this. If Smart is losing like this in ’18, I’ll be all for a coaching change wand will admit his time as a failure. But to do it after 4 games with CMR’s roster is so pathetic it’s laughable.
You know if you could just shut up awhile about CMR others wouldn’t be so quick to come to his to his defense.
No one is calling for a coaching change after 4 games and I am not calling his time as HC a failure. I am saying he stunk today, he stunk on his own and he deserves to be criticized for it. That does not mean he cannot learn from his mistakes and I hope he does.
I wish we had hired an experienced head coach. Wish we had tried to get Tom Herman, but we didn’t. That means Smart is the coach of my team and I want him to win every damn game.
Blame someone who spent the week 700 miles away from Butts-Mehre for our lack of preparation if you want, but I am not.
Good point. Richt played the long con. He spent 15 years ruining the team. Now, he could have done it in three, but frankly, the SEC is too easy of a conference for that. Even with awful coaching and recruiting, 10 wins is nearly guaranteed. Instead, Richt bided his time and was finally able to build a team of top ten recruiting classes that sucks so much that not even Smart and McGarity may be capable of winning 10 games. And we all know how easy that is!
Well played. Wish I could insert the Citizen Kane clapping gif.
You are a really smart guy, a business success. You know that it is appropriate to evaluate Smart for what he does, not for what someone else did.
Smart is not entitled to immunity just because you did not like his predecessor. We stunk today. We were not mentally focused and our strategy was odd, considering the match ups. Richt has nothing to do with that.
My perspective wasn’t that we lost. It was the manner in which we lost. We spit the bit, soiled the bed, laid an egg, face planted or any other term you want to use. That’s about being resilient & focused and really is what cost the previous guy his job. If we had fought like mad and lost, hey, you tip your cap to the other guy and tell him good luck the rest of the season. When your team plays like it doesn’t have a pulse, it is the coaching staff’s fault. The roster isn’t where anyone wants it to be especially along the lines of scrimmage, but playing hard, physical and fundamentally sound is a choice. This team decided not to do it today.
That’s fair, and very concerning. I don’t know how you change that.
I had hoped those days were over. I’m just not sure from a mental toughness perspective what is missing.
Sadly, old habits die hard.
Boy, That Pittman hire as O line coach is really working out well…
One of two things must be the case. Either (a) he really is the “best in the business” OL coach that everyone says he is, or (b) he’s overrated as all hell. For now, I’m inclined to trust his reputation. But think about what that implies. If the best OL coach in the country can’t keep our OL from looking like a bunch of turnstiles, then perhaps the talent (and strength) at that position is even worse than we all suspected. (Maybe the rumors are true, and the last coaching regime couldn’t evaluate OL talent for shit.) Either way, we’re going to have to be patient and let Pittman rebuild this OL from the ground up.
Ramguy
The Mark Richt crowd must have forgotten the loses to Vandy, a very crappy SC a couple of years ago….the trashing by the hands of Fla the past two years, one with Faton as the starter, the bonehead kick off call against Tech. The trashing by Tenn in 2007(?) when the Dawgs had the players for a title run. The I don’t give a crap expressions on his face.
These Richt people make me pull against UM every game.
What does Richt 2006, or Richt 20013 have to do with whether we were well coached today? Why does the 2007 UT game give Smart immunity from criticism for his performance?
A couple years from now I hope we can all look back on this as an aberration.
But if you don’t understand its going to be a long couple years you probably need to renew your symphony tickets, cause for better or worse we changed coaches, and that’s almost a guarantee of a couple of years in the doldrums.
Yes, you can sit back and say, hmmm Mark Richt won 10 games last year with a team that was slightly less talented than this one, but that would be a pointless exercise.
We changed coaches, whether that made you happy or sad, deal with the consequences.
And hope.
Yeah. We’re gonna have to let it play out for a few years.
Remember, Scorpio, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
The problem is that the Bulldog Nation has been in the hope stage for 36 years now as 5 of our fellow conference members have won crystal footballs (3 of those including our bloodlust rival have won multiple). In some cases, that hope has turned to frustration and now downright anger.
I can’t take credit for that … Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in one of my favorite all-time movies 🙂
Today go 💩
This one is over and in the books. Bootch Please is coming to town and will be wearing that shit eating grin of his when he arrives. We’re gonna need a privet specialist when they leave I think they take half the hedges home with them.
Oh and Florida ain’t gonna be in a good mood when we play .
Gus got a new bus.
Does Tech play here this year?
AHD, when you look at the remaining games in light of what happened yesterday every single game remaining on the Dawgs’ schedule is in play–including U La La. I’m not sure the team I saw yesterday in Oxford can beat UK and Vandy, much less Auburn, UT and FU. Tech, too.
I agree. 4 games in and this season is already on the brink. A woodshed loss in Athens this weekend at the hands of a Tennessee team that will be smelling blood in the water would be disastrous. I’m not even talking about winning a division … I’m talking about respectability. Why do I feel like this is potentially 1989-1990 all over again? I lived that as a student … I never want to go back there again.
Man. Just got in and read this thread. Can’t we all just get along?
When I lurk on the UT message boards and still see people, today, arguing over Phil Fulmer. Is that where we want to be years from now, arguing over woulda, coulda, shoulda?
Does getting along mean ignoring the shortfalls of the program in a game that was supposed to be an early measuring stick? I guess we’re all supposed to give the staff credit for all of the wins this year and the previous staff the blame for all of the losses. That’s not the way it works, and I haven’t seen anyone say the previous staff would have won this game. I’ve seen a team that hasn’t played well the last 3 weeks on either side of the ball but especially on offense. It’s not all players and execution, and it’s not all coaching and preparation. There’s a lot of blame to go around.
If we end up wandering in the wilderness like UT did, I guarantee you we’ll still be arguing about the decisions made in November and December 2015.
Except McGarity and the others who made the bad decisions will be long gone and WE will be the ones left holding the bag.
let me give the “Can’t we all just get along crowd” something to chew on. I don’t care if we as dawg fans can or can not agree on a particular “issue”. I care about who is right/correct and who is wrong/incorrect.. If 60%-75% of the fan base is certain that changing Coaches was the right thing to do , the mere fact that they were a majority did not make them correct ….it merely made them whiny trolls who just KNEW that change would be for the better. Those of us who correctly pointed out that all change is NOT good and pointing out that firing the winning-est (% wise ) Coach we ever had would historically(Phil Fulmer and L , Carr) and statistically be unlikely to produce a superior result were dismissed as Richt lovers . What the powers that be at Butts-Mehre need to be is right…. not popular. What most people with a brain intuitively understood was that the B-M crowd already had a significant track record of not being right about damn near anything. I don’t want to be understood,agreed with, respected or even right. What I want is to win. Our brain trust and whiners have in all probability doomed us to wandering in the Michigan/Tenn wilderness for the next decade. Thank you McGarity. I am officially changing my trivia team name from “Micheal Adams must Die” to “Greg McGarity must Die “. How much can I get for my 25 yard line lower level tickets with seat backs and parking pass to the UT game ? I do not need to watch this exercise in futility.
Ten wins are great and all, but really we’ve kind of been wandering in the wilderness since 2005.
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But with those risks, there can be high rewards. Eschino also said that the business has grown much faster than he or his business partner anticipated when they first started. Currently, Eschino’s company has a team of 60 people. And he expects it to grow to 80 by the end of the year. But when they first started the business about five years ago, they only expected it to be a small side business.
Incredibles isn’t the only brand that’s thriving in this new industry, however. Yummi Karma is a growing business that takes a more savory approach to marijuana edibles. The company has faced some of the same regulatory challenges, so they try to take a proactive approach.
CEO Krystal Kitahara said in an exclusive interview with Small Business Trends, “Yummi Karma prides itself on being overly compliant with cannabis regulations. We are currently switching over all of our packaging to comply with the strictest regulations in the state. We are also looking to be one of the first cannabis manufacturers to apply for and obtain a state license.”
The variety of products you can develop into marijuana edibles is constantly changing as well. Incredibles has several different lines of products, including some new ones the team is working to release in the future. But their most popular products include several chocolate items.
Yummi Karma focuses more on savory items like salad dressings, potato chips and even a sriracha sauce.Cheeba Chews sells chewable items like gummies, taffy and caramels. And Dixie Elixirs sells everything from chocolate and caramels to topicals and vape.
You can also find the following items from various marijuana edibles businesses:
There’s even an entire industry now devoted to cookbooks for edibles. There are also business and marketing plans now being developed specifically for this industry.
So while there are a lot of changes coming about to adapt to this new, growing marijuana edibles industry, there’s a lot more that’s likely to change in the coming months and years.
Regulatory and policy changes in various states make running a marijuana edibles business interesting. And while the future of the marijuana edibles industry is far from set in stone, the rapid growth of companies like Yummi Karma and Incredibles make it clear that there is a large demand for what these companies offer.
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Doune Of Invernochty
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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the castle and motte of Doune of Invernochty, looking to the WNW.
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Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg adjacent, taken from the NNE.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg and Strathdon Parish Church adjacent, taken from the NW.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg and Strathdon Parish Church adjacent, taken from the WSW.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the motte, church and churchyard, taken from the W.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the motte at Doune of Invernochty, looking to the SE.
Oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW, of Doune of Invernochty Motte.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg and Strathdon Parish Church adjacent, taken from the WNW.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post, taken from the SSE.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg adjacent, taken from the ENE.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the castle and motte of Doune of Invernochty, looking to the SE.
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Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty, taken from the NW.
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Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg adjacent, taken from the SSE.
General oblique aerial view of landscape of upper Strath Don, looking NNE towards the Doune of Invernochty.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the motte at Doune of Invernochty, looking to the SSW.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg adjacent, taken from the SW.
Oblique aerial view of Strathdon Parish Church and Doune of Invernochty in the snow, from West North-West.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the castle and motte of Doune of Invernochty, looking to the NW.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty, taken from the WNW.
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General oblique aerial view of Bellabeg, with Doune of Invernochty Motte adjacent, taken from the S.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post with Bellabeg adjacent, taken from the NE.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty, taken from the SW.
400dpi scan of DC44332 RCAHMS plan of Doune of Invernochty motte
These plans depict the remains of the earth and timber castles that survive upstanding in Donside. The variety of forms indicates the way severl of them are tailored to the natural features of their locations.
Oblique aerial view from WNW.
Oblique aerial view of Doune of Invernochty centred on the remains of the motte, chapel, castle, building and observation post, taken from the ESE.
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View of the Doune of Invernochty.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the castle and motte of Doune of Invernochty, looking to the NNW.
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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the castle and motte of Doune of Invernochty, looking to the ENE.
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The footings of the original kirk are still visible on the crown of the great earthen castle mound opposite; the Doune of Invernochty, 12th century (60ft high, 250ft x 129ft). Gigantic motte or castle mound, surrounded by a rare system of dams and sluices. Water, from River Bardoch, remained in system as late as 1823.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ31SE 1 35151 12957
(NJ 351 129) Doun of Invernochty (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1903)
Excavations were carried out on this monument in 1854.
Building Chronicle, 21 Aug 1854.
The Doune of Invernochty comprises a motte and earthworks dating from the late 12th/early 13th century. It ranks as one of the finest examples of Norman earthwork castles in Scotland, and appears to be the sole Scottish example of a motte with Norman stonework on its summit. The oval motte is carved out of a glacial mound, about 60ft high, and is surrounded by a ditch 22-32ft wide and averaging 20ft deep. A countersweep bank is enlarged on the W to form a crescentic platform, 74ft at its widest, which is probably a bailey. Jervise (A Jervise 1875-9) states that the remains of several buildings are visible here. A narrow bank around the counterscarp, is probably a palisade bank. A large bank extending from the motte ot the N and W has retained a small lake to supply the ditch with water. It was drained in 1823. Excavations in 1855 by Alexander Walker revealed the piling of a drawbridge and a building supposed to have been a gatehouse further excavated in 1935 by the owner, F L Wallace, revealed a stone curtain wall around the summit of the motte, with an original entrance in the S. Another gap in the N is modern. Of the stone buildings exposed within, one extending across th summit of the motte is almost certainly a large Norman chapel, identified by the discovery of a Norman stoup immediately to the N of it. This is known to have served as the parish church of Invernochty, disused before 1654. Finds included a gold brooch of about 1300, now preserved at Newe; 14th century potsherds, iron work and animal bones.
Name Book 1867; A Jervise 1875-9; W D Simpson 1919; W D Simpson 1936; W D Simpson 1943.
The Doune of Invernochty as described and illustrated by Simpson.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 August 1968.
This castle is situated in an area of grazing land at an altitude of 290m OD.
[GRC/AAS ground plans cited].
NMRS, MS/712/43, visited March 1976, 25 May 1989 and 15 August 1995.
This large and impressive motte probably has a natural mound at its core, although a great deal of earth-moving and sculpting was undoubtedly involved in its construction. It stands to a height of up to 12m above the bottom of the encircling ditch and its roughly oval summit measures 80m from NNW to SSE by 40m transversely. Around the edge of the summit are the low, grass-grown remains of a curtain wall, which, on the S, has been exposed by excavation to reveal a mortared stone wall 2m thick. Immediately to the NW of the exposed wall excavation has also revealed a deeply set rectangular chamber measuring 6m from NW to SE by 4.6m transversely internally. An area of disturbance immediately to the NE of the chamber, including a metal post set in concrete, represents the remains of a Second World War observation post. A large rectangular building straddles the summit and cuts off the northernmost third of the interior from the rest. The building is defined by little more than stone footings and the edges of old excavation trenches dug to follow its walls, but it measures 30m from NE to SW by 11.3m transversely overall. Access to the summit was probably originally gained on the S, where a modern path ascends the motte, whilst a break in the curtain wall at the NW apex is probably modern.
The ditch is some 15m broad and 3m deep, but the low bank that can be traced along its outer lip, is clearly later in date, overlying a broad terrace of made ground that surrounds most of the site. The only gaps in this terrace are on the S, where it may have been destroyed by the road, and on the N. The purpose of this feature is unclear; it is broader (up to 25m) and more regular on the W, but narrower (up to 12m) on the E, where it has a curious wavy outer edge that appears to represent a series of contiguous soil dumps. On the W it is overlain by structures that probably post-date the occupation of the site. These include at least one rectangular building measuring 11.8m from E to W by 4.7m transversely over a low bank, a kiln and an enclosure, and there are also several indeterminate features.
The ditch was formerly water-filled, the water entering through the break in the terrace on the N from an artificially created lake, now drained and planted with conifers. The lake was created by the construction of a dam, 11m thick and about 2m high, which ran NE from the E side of the break in the terrace for a distance of 150m, capturing at least one burn and certainly flooding the area to the N and NE of the motte.
Visited RCAHMS (PC, SPH, KM), 2-6 March 1998.
NJ 3524 1305 A small watching brief was undertaken in June 2004 during the removal of tree stumps for landscaping to provide a new footpath. The site lies adjacent to the Scheduled motte of Doune of Invernochty (NJ31SE 1).
The only archaeological feature noted was a stretch of walling of rough boulders of unknown date. Most of the area was heavily disturbed by the previous forestry plantation.
Full report lodged with Aberdeenshire SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Scottish Woodlands Ltd.
K Cooper 2004.
Publication Account (1986)
RCAHMS: Exploring Scotland's Heritage - Grampian, 1986
This is a massive Norman castle earthwork, the 'capital messuage' of Strathdon, one of the feudal lordships of the province of Mar. Carved out of a glacial mound, the motte is oval in plan and measures an enormous 76m by 36.6m and 18.3m in height. It is surrounded by a ditch and bank. Only two other Norman earthworks are of comparable size, the Motte of Urr in Kirkcudbrightshire and Duffus castle in Moray (no. 32).
The scale (1.8m thick) and mortaring of the curtain wall around the summit suggest that it is a genuine military work rather than a late dyke as at Lumphanan (no. 33). The oblong building whose foundations stretch right across the summit may have been a chapel, in view of the rare carved piscina or stoup fragment found close by; this building may have served as the parish church ofInvernochty until later medieval times. The square foundations near the entrance on the south side of the summit may have been a tower.
The motte is surrounded by a broad ditch which could be flooded from a lake immediately to the west, whose eastern retaining bank can still be seen running through the trees. This, and the sluices that controlled the water at the north-west and east of the counterscarp, represent an important and rare example of early military engineering.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
This is a massive Norman castle earthwork, the 'capital messuage' of Strathdon, one of the feudal lordships of the province of Mar. Carved out of a glacial mound, the motte is oval in plan and measures an enormous 76m by 36.6m and 18.3m in height. It is surrounded by a ditch and bank. Only two other Norman earthworks are of comparable Size, the lVlotte of Urr In Kirkcudbrightshire and Duffus castle in Moray (no. 32).
The scale (1.8m thick) and mortaring of the curtain wall around the summit suggest that it is a genuine military work rather than a late dyke as at Lumphanan (no. 33). The oblong building whose foundations stretch right across the summit may have been a chapel, in view of the rare carved piscina or stoup fragment found close by; this building may have served as the parish church of Invernochty until later medieval times. The square foundations near the entrance on the sourh side of the summit may have been a tower.
The motte is surrounded by a broad ditch which could be flooded from a lake immediately to the west, whose eastern retaining bank can still be seen running through the trees. This, and the sluices that controlled the water at the north-west and east of the counter-scarp, represent an important and rare example of early military engineering.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).
Scottish Church Heritage Research (SCHR)
Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record
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*** UPDATED x4 - Didech joins opposition - Croke won’t vote for MJM - Conroy, Gabel, Moeller and Williams say they won’t be backing Madigan - Guzzardi says he’s a ‘No’ *** Tipping point: Two more House Democrats say they won’t vote to reelect Speaker Madigan
Thursday, Nov 19, 2020
Future of the Democratic House Caucus
This year has presented us with many challenges and we have always put the betterment of the people of Illinois first. We want to see our caucus go a new direction with different leadership. Therefore, we will not be supporting the current speaker for the 102nd General Assembly.
Representative Jonathan Carroll
Representative Sam Yingling
That’s 14.
If everyone who has said they won’t vote for Madigan (8 plus today’s 2) or said he should step aside and let someone else take over (4) actually stick to their guns, Speaker Madigan is now at 59 for the January election. That’s one short of the 60 he needs to win another term.
*** UPDATE 1 *** Rep. Will Guzzardi makes 15…
In so many ways, our state is at a crossroads. We face unprecedented political, economic, social, and public health crises. And they are compounded by Illinoisans’ lack of faith in our government to lead our state fairly and ethically.
The charges announced last night only confirm what we already knew: the old ways of doing business in Springfield will not be adequate to rise to our present challenges. We will need new, transformative leadership to meet this moment.
I join many of my fellow House members in asking Rep. Madigan not to seek re-election as Speaker of the Illinois House. If he does, we will not be voting for him. And without our votes, we do not believe he will have the requisite number to be re-elected as Speaker.
It is time for our House Democratic Caucus to decide on new leadership for the 102nd General Assembly. This is a historic moment, and I look forward to the discussion with my colleagues on a transformative new direction for our Caucus.
…Adding… Reps. Kelly Cassidy, Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Terra Costa Howard, Maurice West, Bob Morgan, Anne Stava-Murray, Stephanie Kifowit and Lindsey LaPointe have all said they would not vote to reelect Madigan. Reps. Deb Conroy, Robyn Gabel, Anna Moeller and Ann Williams recently sent Madigan a letter asking him not to run again so somebody new could take his place. Add today’s three and that’s 15. The House Democrats will have 73 seats in the next General Assembly, so MJM is now two shy of the 60 he needs for reelection unless some folks get cold feet and flip back.
*** UPDATE 2 *** This seals it…
On November 8, 2020, we sent a letter to Speaker Madigan calling on him to step aside and make room for new leadership of the Illinois House in January. In the wake of yesterday’s expansive and far-reaching indictment, it has become even more clear that the Speaker will no longer be able to effectively lead the House Democratic caucus, and we will not be supporting him for Speaker.
We are committed to working collaboratively with our colleagues to identify the best path forward to protect working families, ensure access to healthcare, protect our environment and address other critical Democratic priorities.
Representative Deb Conroy - 46th District
Representative Robyn Gabel - 18th District
Representative Anna Moeller - 43rd District
Representative Ann M. Williams - 11th District
*** UPDATE 3 *** Press release…
Representative-elect Margaret Croke of Illinois’ 12th district will not support Speaker Michael Madigan’s reelection as the Speaker of the Illinois House.
Croke, who will represent Chicago’s near Northside, lakefront neighborhoods stated, “Given the incredible challenges facing our state, Springfield cannot afford distractions that take our focus off of meeting those challenges head-on.
We must do all that we can to restore people’s trust. Springfield needs to focus on helping people get through this pandemic and then restoring and rebuilding a better economy and state that works for everyone.
With change comes opportunity. Illinois has a diverse and majority-woman legislature. It is my hope that when I am sworn in to serve the 12th district, I will have an opportunity to cast my vote for a Speaker that represents the diversity of our state. We must then get to work restoring trust with voters and addressing the very serious and real challenges we face.”
Croke joins other notable representatives calling for a change in leadership.
*** UPDATE 4 *** Rep. Daniel Didech has also issued a statement. Click here to read it.
- Posted by Rich Miller
- Nummy yummy - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:45 am:
The avalanche is reaching critical mass.
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:47 am:
- ILPundit - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:47 am:
I suspect this is going to start to look like a House roll call, where once it becomes clear on the board it isn’t going to pass, more people start jumping off.
- Rasselas - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:48 am:
For better or worse, Madigan is the Tito of the Illinois Democratic Party. If/when he leaves, I think we’ll see chaos as the various factions of the party divide along ideological, gender, geographic, racial and ethnic lines.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:48 am:
It’s up to the “14” to write… to write a joint statement, acknowledging math to the Speaker, show the speaker his fate, and allow him to remove his own name, or release the statement of the “14” and force the hand.
Would end so much.. quite quick.
- 10th Ward - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:48 am:
Ok? So who is the next speaker?
My guess: Greg Harris
- So_Ill - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:48 am:
Who would be the most logical choice for his replacement? Rep. Harris?
To the update…
Write the joint letter, y’all have the votes, be done with it.
- Just Me 2 - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:49 am:
By the end of the day we should hear of Members calling around asking for votes. By Monday Madigan will say he won’t run again and try to install his favored candidate, and that will backfire on that person.
- Bridgeport Bob - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:51 am:
The 14 “will not vote for Madigan” votes are interesting for sure, but until there’s an alternative to vote for - where do they go? Kifowit is an alternative, but not a realistic one. Yet, she’s the only other candidate for speaker at this point. Who will step up and give them a ship to jump on to? Right now they’re just adrift at sea.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:52 am:
===where do they go? ===
One thing at a time.
=== The 14 “will not vote for Madigan” votes are interesting for sure===
The 15 now, and until they all decide, collectively, publicly, as one, decide to make known what the math says, the rest is useless to speculate.
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:54 am:
Ann Williams is big tell. She knows how things are done. She knows when to move on.
- Arsenal - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:55 am:
@10th Ward- Harris if they want a placeholder, Welch if they want another guy that’ll last for decades.
I wouldn’t predict a real pie fight. The Mushrooms dont have that in ‘em.
- STFD - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:56 am:
So far it’s a bunch of progressives who couldn’t pass a bill on their own.
- ;) - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:57 am:
Time for the Unions to make clear: you will not receive Union support if you jump ship on the only person to protect organized labor. MJM has been organized labors one man Blue Wall in the Midwest. Time for them to return the support, in full.
===One thing at a time.===
My point is that until someone steps up and says “vote for me”, I don’t think these defections carry a lot of weight. There’s no alternative. And looking at the roster of those who could be considered legitimate contenders, I don’t see a single one of them stepping up and breaking rank.
I could be wrong, only time will tell - but that to me is a HUGE missing piece.
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:59 am:
== Yet, she’s the only other candidate for speaker at this point. ==
You don’t attack the King maker unless you are sure of the outcome. There are one or two waiting in the wings.
And if, an big IF, MJM were to voluntarily exit, his price might be nominating the next king maker.
- Graybeard - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:59 am:
= So far it’s a bunch of progressives who couldn’t pass a bill on their own.=
Your opinion of their politics is irrelevant here. They have the votes and the Speaker does not.
- NIU Grad - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:59 am:
I worry that his goal now will be to incite chaos in a way that implies that he is the only steady hand for the future. The House doesn’t exactly have an obvious pick waiting in the wings to be the next Speaker…
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:00 am:
It’s time for a new Speaker. Yes, Madigan still has a super-majority after years of attacks on him. Yes, he should not be indicted unless there’s sufficient evidence. But the baggage is too heavy. It’s time for a clean slate. That should not be controversial.
Plus, it would take away the ILGOP smokescreen. The party would no longer be able to cop out by attacking Madigan and would have to run on issues and ideology.
- DuPage Saint - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:01 am:
It is a long way between cup and lip
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:03 am:
=== My point is that until someone steps up and says “vote for me”===
The pressure is the supporting of MJM.
The rest is the fallout.
That fallout being mending fences with Labor.
Ask Pat Quinn how it worked out crossing labor.
=== I could be wrong, only time will tell - but that to me is a HUGE missing piece.===
No, the piece that is of consideration is the letter from the collective 15 to end the discussions, and try to heal the family rift and get labor on board, none of which needs to happen until the 15 act as one.
- So_Ill - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:05 am:
==Plus, it would take away the ILGOP smokescreen. The party would no longer be able to cop out by attacking Madigan and would have to run on issues and ideology.==
This would definitely be a “careful what you wish for” scenario for the ILGOP. They lose their main political fodder and a more liberal/progressive speaker (with a supermajority) moves the state further left than it probably would under Madigan’s leadership.
- Powdered Whig - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:07 am:
This is the best thing to happen to the ILGOP in decades.
- STFD - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:08 am:
== - Graybeard - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:59 am:
Your opinion of their politics is irrelevant here. They have the votes and the Speaker does not. ==
Beg to differ. It’s easy to count to 15 before anything goes on the board, but not easy to count to 60. They don’t have the votes to elect a new Speaker. The progressive wing of the caucus isn’t aligned with the Black Caucus, Latino Caucus, or many of the non-progressive women. At some point they will move on to figuring out who’s next, and it aint gonna be one of them.
- Responsa - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:09 am:
==Free for all==
A necessary process of abandoning ship is never predictable or well organized.
- Nick - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:12 am:
Things are certainly getting interesting now, that’s for sure.
I think I’d agree with the idea though that until they publicly affirm their intent of not voting for him, it’s too early to say it’s over for good ole Mike. The math is becoming difficult, but not impossible, for him.
- Guzzardi Himself - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:14 am:
https://ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/101/house/10100SB0001_02142019_003000T.pdf
I don’t think it’s really on them to figure out a Madigan replacement. The entire caucus can do that as soon as it becomes clear Mike doesn’t have the votes, and thus will need to step aside.
- Almost the weekend - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:16 am:
Pritzker has three deputy governors, surely one of them can take this on, and unite them under one individual. If Madigan is able to stay the Speaker after this, 2022 will be bad for the whole Dem ticket.
- IrishPirate - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:16 am:
The games afoot!
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:17 am:
Women of the House, start your engines.
=== Pritzker has three deputy governors, surely one of them can take this on, and unite them under one individual.===
Ask President Lightford how that worked out.
It’s a caucus thing, it should be left to the sitting 74 and then if it’s not rolling now then to the 73 that will be sat in January.
The math isn’t MJM’s friend.
- Sue - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:19 am:
Madigan is likely to be out as Speaker but in terms of timing Pritzker will find it nearly impossible to govern through the Covid crisis w/o Madigan and his experience. We should prepare for Chaos
=== If Madigan is able to stay the Speaker after this, 2022 will be bad for the whole Dem ticket. ===
If Madigan is not the Speaker, 2022 will still be bad for the whole Dem ticket.
Point being if they already have a replacement ready, it isn’t a ’stop Madigan vote’ it’s a ‘Madigan vs this other person’ vote.
And in a pure two-person contest, Madigan probably manages to scrounge up the votes.
You’re better keeping it purely a question of Mike, Yes or No.
- muon - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:21 am:
I look at the defections among the HDems as equivalent to a failed judicial retention vote. It’s only after a judge fails to be retained that a replacement is identified and others step up to run in the next election. Once the votes against the Speaker are a hard count sufficient to deny his reelection, then I expect clear alternatives to emerge. As Rich notes, there are 4 that are still not what I would consider in a hard count.
- Leslie K - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:22 am:
==== So far it’s a bunch of progressives who couldn’t pass a bill on their own.=
Your opinion of their politics is irrelevant here. They have the votes and the Speaker does not.===
No–they have the “not” votes. Peeling off from Madigan doesn’t mean they have coalesced around a replacement.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:26 am:
===you will not receive Union support if you jump ship===
And what happens if they jump ship and MJM goes down? They’ll work with the new Speaker.
With Labor, it’s going to be about the mending fences after, and what labor group is going to trust the GOP here after Rauner, and with state party Rauner appointed leadership still in place?
That’s why it’s a process of steps, not one swoop.
- Pass the Butter - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:29 am:
“Congratulations. You are Speaker again.”
Haunting then. Even more so today.
https://www.wjbc.com/2019/01/09/101st-general-assembly-takes-office/
==Peeling off from Madigan doesn’t mean they have coalesced around a replacement.==
The man is 78 years old. Seriously how could there not be a tacit heir apparent even if it was not previously possible to say so publicly?
- Juvenal - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:30 am:
=== The fallout being mending fences with Labor ===
Not just Labor.
These legislators largely represent districts where neither the Fair Tax nor Police Reform fared well. Redistricting means that meaningful police reform and tax reform are on life support right now. You can probably do one but not both.
Yingling will get cheers from the Tribune editorial board tomorrow and after the vote for Speaker is taken, but come endorsement time the editorial board will still find reason to endorse his opponent and he will be gone.
- Back to the Future - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:35 am:
I think Amalia has made the best comment of the day.
- too soon? - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:40 am:
So will the future speaker allow MJM to set up an office in the 300 conference room or is he getting kicked back to the Stratton Building offices?
- Anon III - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:43 am:
Nick - @ 10:21 am: === You’re better keeping it purely a question of Mike, Yes or No. ===
“You can’t beat somebody with nobody.”
=== “You can’t beat somebody with nobody.”===
It’s a “Vote of Confidence” in this instance, not an election.
That’s the difference.
Also why the caucus itself needs to do this in steps
A Dem will get 60.
Allowing the Raunerites to be relevant is not possible, they all can agree to that.
- Freida - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:48 am:
==The man is 78 years old. Seriously how could there not be a tacit heir apparent even if it was not previously possible to say so publicly?==
His mentor Richard J. Daley had no heir apparent because it could pose a political threat and, at the same time, send a signal that he was a lame duck.
- Donnie Elgin - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:49 am:
Finally under 60. The tide will quickly turn now that political cover is no longer needed.
Exactly OW
And none of these 14/15 are presumably stupid enough to try working with House Republicans to push a replacement. It’d be suicide for them and lead to a real irrevocable split with labor/other Dem groups.
You deny him a majority, and then it’s either up to him to bow out graciously and influence who his successor is, or you keep at it until a majority of the caucus finally tells him to step aside.
It’s a pretty straightforward thing;
The release;
“The New Day Caucus Won’t Support Madigan; A New Speaker Will Be Elected
Springfield - The New Day Caucus, a 15 member caucus of Democratic members of the 102nd General Assembly, announce today they will not be voting for Mike Madigan as Speaker, and announce so to begin the next steps in electing a new Speaker
After that, then the rest begins.
Until the 15 decide to call the game, collectively…
- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 10:57 am:
===“You can’t beat somebody with nobody.”===
In this case, you can bet a Somebody will emerge to answer the second question, if the answer to the first question is “nope”.
- superfly - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:01 am:
Labor MUST have a plan B. I understand that Madigan is their first choice, but they must know that he is in trouble. Who is labor’s second choice?
- Jim Edgar's Pension Check - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:07 am:
Oswego Willy gives great advice for the Democrats. You Democrats should appreciate all the work he does for the party.
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:08 am:
Somewhere, Scott Drury must be smiling and thinking ‘This is so much better than a ******* clock’.
- Jim Edgar’s Pension Check -
IPI is down the dial, Wirepoints even further.
I can’t think of an honest Republican, (Raunerites need Madigan, they have nothing else) that sees MJM staying as helpful to governing
Then again, the ridiculously silly trying to make me a Dem aren’t smart enough to come up with clever handles, so they put words together they think are clever, but signals another silly take is coming.
It’s the obvious play.
Will Dems do it? Dunno.
- Steve Rogers - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:16 am:
Tell that to Justice Tom Kilbride.
If you’re going to troll, at least add to the discussion
- Arsenal - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:20 am:
I’ll be shocked if the number stops at 15.
- west wing - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:24 am:
every one of the 73 or whatever house members looks in the mirror and sees a future speaker of the house … who can put the coalition of city/suburban/downstate together?
- dupage progressive - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:34 am:
it’s going to be a woman…
Harris is tainted - he donated a whole lotta money to MJM. He’s tied to MJM. If there is a new speaker, it SHOULDN”T be him.
Just to be clear, despite the large number of Democratic seats, a new Speaker means a rebuilding of the caucus political apparatus. I have previously raised issues regarding the ability of other legislators to put such an apparatus together. I don’t see anyone that fits the bill right now.
- Chicagonk - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:42 am:
The question for me is whether Madigan’s successor will try to keep all of Madigan’s rules and organizational power in place or whether that will fall apart once the big guy is gone.
- The Moderate Non-Voter - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 11:45 am:
- dupage progressive -
Harris isn’t tainted. He fits many qualities in the oppression olympics. He’d make a good Speaker.
- McLeanist - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:06 pm:
If, and not assuming anything, but if MJM doesn’t retain the speakership, any thoughts on if he would continue as 22nd District Rep? I realize this is clearly a “cart before the horse” question, but could we really see him returning as a rank and file member?
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:07 pm:
Unclear on the concept of a retention election? It’s Keep or Don’t Keep, not candidate versus candidate. Try to keep up.
To the updates, the scorecard is:
MJM 58
Kifowit 1
- Captain Obvious - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:29 pm:
McLeanist asks a very pertinent question. Is Madigan a fade into the sunset kind of guy? He is 78 but do you see him not fighting back? He will still have enough money and likely influence to be a thorn in the side of those who oust him. That’s why it would be optimum to have many more than 15 come out and say they will not vote for him. Leave him enough loyalists and he could come right back. He will be motivated to do so by his nature.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:33 pm:
To update 2
Madigan can fight the accusations, the possible legal, even the ethical going forward… but Madigan won’t be doing it… as Speaker.
That battle is over. It’s time to think behind yesterday, today… and Madigan needs to think to his tomorrows… and what the tomorrows bring.
Staying now, today, as Speaker… is a selfish game of false belief that the end of the road isn’t upon him
- SE Progressive - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:38 pm:
On one had I’d love to see new leadership instead of Madigan in there again as Speaker.
On the other hand, whenever I see a FB post from Darren Bailey cheering the end of Madigan’s reign, I kinda want him to continue on.
(Mostly sarcastic)
- Nick - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:40 pm:
That looks like the ballgame
- NIU Grad - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:46 pm:
Am I the only one that thinks this doesn’t feel real? Like…is today the day?
It’s rather anticlimatic
=== This is the best thing to happen to the ILGOP in decades.===
Dunno about that.
The ILGOP has yet to show they can win statehouse and congressional seats in Cook and the Collars *with* Madigan… how’s that gonna go without Madigan?
(Tips hat to - Nick -, humbly)
- Nagidam - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 12:53 pm:
After discussions with Labor leaders and the Trial Lawyers over the weekend, my bet is three people not named Kifowit emerge next week. New names just needed the numbers to say the Speaker cannot get re-elected. The prospective Speaker candidates can now get in the chase.
- Nick - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 1:05 pm:
Guzzardi tweeting lol
https://twitter.com/WillGuzzardi/status/1329498853616316416?s=20
“Fifteen of us are now publicly committed not to vote for Madigan. That only leaves 58 Democrats.
It’s time to start talking about who can get to 60.”
- BeenThereDoneThat - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 1:50 pm:
My prediction - Speaker Kelly Burke. She defeated Madigan’s hand-picked candidate in a primary, held no grudge, moved eventually into leadership, is smart and well liked in the building.
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 1:55 pm:
Nick - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 1:05 pm
Look at how quick he said this only applies to the vote for Speaker lol. He can’t get his own bills out of his own committee lol.
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:20 pm:
there are more women in the caucus than men. Barbara Flynn Currie was loyal for like ever. way past time to have a woman lead one of of the chambers. Ladies, get going.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:24 pm:
The more names coming forward, the more it’s like setting sail, landing, and burning your ship… there’s no turning back, it’s beyond the point of worry, the piling on will be the play, not the peeling away.
Waiting and watching.
- hisgirlfriday - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:24 pm:
Thank you thank you thank you to all these members who have surrendered to common sense and reason in calling for Madigan’s retirement despite the tremendous pressure brought to bear on you from many insiders seeking to keep the status quo churning on.
The overwhelming majority of Illinois citizens thank you and bless you for doing the right thing here.
Being willing to say good bye to the Madigan anchor dragging down the Illinois Democratic Party does not show any betrayal or disloyalty. It means being a reality-based person.
- northside reformer - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:28 pm:
Did CTU clear Guzzardi’s statement? In all seriousness, look how long it took for the guy who posterized Joe Berrios to come out against Madigan. The kids all growns up.
- Powdered Whig - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:29 pm:
=== The ILGOP has yet to show they can win statehouse and congressional seats in Cook and the Collars *with* Madigan… how’s that gonna go without Madigan? ===
You are assuming, like many others, that Madigan was a net negative for the Democrats. Sure, the Republicans have used Madigan as a punching bag for decades, and in the last few cycles it has started to gain some traction.
With that said, what Madigan brings to the table is a seasoned group of staff and supporters that all contribute to the effort to get House Democrats elected. Winning campaigns do not materialize out of thin air. With Madigan gone, plenty of loyal followers will leave with him. Sure, many of these folks will still be around the Capitol, but how many of them are willing to dedicate their nights, weekends… their lives to helping out a new Speaker? This work is extremely hard work, and I suspect many of them will se this as an opportunity to ride off into the sunset or do other things with their free time. That is the intangible factor that will be missing without Madigan. I know people here say that someone else will pick up where he left off, but I don’t see it. It will be a rebuilding process from the ground up, and whoever takes the helm will not have the experience, knowledge or expertise that the Speaker has brought to the table. I think the caucus is in for a big surprise and a world of hurt over the next several cycles.
=== You are assuming, like many others, that Madigan was a net negative for the Democrats. Sure, the Republicans have used Madigan as a punching bag for decades, and in the last few cycles it has started to gain some traction.===
Traction?
In all you stated, you didn’t refute a single word or reality of… results.
=== Sure, many of these folks will still be around the Capitol, but how many of them are willing to dedicate their nights, weekends… their lives to helping out a new Speaker?===
And McConchie and Durkin are going to be those motivators far more than the supermajority that can offer those who do decide to work hard… opportunities… that Madigan might not have given.
=== I think the caucus is in for a big surprise and a world of hurt over the next several cycles.===
Yeah. The map. You forgot the map.
… and the senate map… congressional map… and who exactly is gong to run statewide without “Madigan” to run against?
In the Biden midterm, you think Raunerites clamoring fit a 51st state, who supported a racist “former” president in Trump… that’s a new day.
Regroup, Renew, Recruit… the rest is “hope”
Hope isn’t a plan.
2022 does pose some risks, but it’s useful for IL Dems that they can redistrict quite a few of those risks into something more managable.
And many of the suburban voters that have shifted Dem 2016-2020 aren’t going to shift back.
=== In all you stated, you didn’t refute a single word or reality of… results. ===
In 2018, he won a supermajority that the chamber has never seen. This year, in an “off” year, he lost 1 net seat. Don’t talk to me about results.
=== This year, in an “off” year, he lost 1 net seat. Don’t talk to me about results.===
Narrator: it’s still a supermajority.
What, you think the Dems should win all 118?
As someone pointed out, 51 HDem seats were unopposed, that’s not a Madigan problem.
=== Yeah. The map. You forgot the map. ===
And what is going to happen with the map? Didn’t JB say that he was going to veto and map that he didn’t perceive as a “fair” map?
- ZC - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:44 pm:
The best thing that would have happened to the ILGOP’s political prospects in decades is if the Fair Tax had passed.
=== And what is going to happen with the map? Didn’t JB say that he was going to veto and map that he didn’t perceive as a “fair” map?===
The hopes for Raunerites is a Dem governor?
Hope… is not a plan.
At this point, no Raunerite is going to say any map that’s drawn by anyone other than them will be deemed “fair”
- AD - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:47 pm:
===And many of the suburban voters that have shifted Dem 2016-2020 aren’t going to shift back.===
You sure about that? If you told me last November about everything that would happen in 2020, let’s just say I’d be a little hesitant to believe you. And now you’re trying to predict people’s opinions 24 months from now, let’s just say I’m very hesitant to believe you.
=== The hopes for Raunerites is a Dem governor? ===
I have no idea what you are talking about.
I guess I have to be explicit. I don’t think that there is another House Dem that has the political savvy to craft a map that will overcome what will likely be coming on the national level. Whether it was by design or not, I don’t know. But I predict it is going to be a complete cluster.
===You sure about that? If you told me last November about everything that would happen in 2020, let’s just say I’d be a little hesitant to believe you. And now you’re trying to predict people’s opinions 24 months from now, let’s just say I’m very hesitant to believe you.===
Trends are called trends for a reason.
And 2020 if anything confirmed many of the trends we’ve been seeing for awhile. Rural voters becoming more Republican, suburban voters becoming more Democratic, to varying degrees.
“And many south suburban voters that have shifted Dem here in 1996 they are going to shift back”
- Lee Daniels talking about getting the the gavel back … forgetting the map… and demographics… maybe.
- Random Online Blogger - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 2:51 pm:
The biggest issue for Madigan once he isnt Speaker anymore is what they call the Paterno Affect. Once Joe Paterno was weakened enough he couldnt keep a lid on the stories surrounding Jerry Sandusky, they all came out as there was no negative consequence because there was no more leverage on the throat. Once Madigan is stripped of his official power it will all escalate as people clamor to get on the right side of things and a new round of stories that connect the dots come out. This is a bonanza for the G and their case
=== And 2020 if anything confirmed many of the trends we’ve been seeing for awhile. Rural voters becoming more Republican, suburban voters becoming more Democratic, to varying degrees. ===
Tell that to Diane Pappas and Mary-Edly Allen.
=== I have no idea what you are talking about.===
Sure you do, lol
You said it here;
Raunerites are counting in a Dem governor.
=== I don’t think that there is another House Dem that has the political savvy to craft a map that will overcome what will likely be coming on the national level.===
Again, there were 51 unopposed HDem seats.
You keep forgetting.
=== Tell that to Diane Pappas and Mary-Edly Allen.===
Grant Wehrli… Allen Skillicorn
Heck, Anne Stava-Murray survived…
Also didn’t the Dems *just* flip the DuPage County Board?
I’m not saying there won’t be any reversion at all in 2022, but you can’t turn back the clock on these sorts of shifts.
- Huh? - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 3:03 pm:
I will wait until the private Democratic caucus vote to see if Madigan is forced out. All this chest beating about how someone won’t vote for Madigan political puffery. Between now and then, arms will be twisted and deals made.
- Frank talks - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 3:31 pm:
Well this is a turn of events I don’t think folks we’re banking on.
Had Pappas and Edly-Allen won I’d wait and see how votes were going against him. Their losses combined with Stava and Costa wins shows that the Speakers operation isn’t as strong as it used to be. Plus you may not actually need him like before?
- Marquee - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 3:34 pm:
Chris Welch is the best candidate to be the new Speaker but he is not helping his cause by delaying the investigation committee
- DuPage Dave - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 3:43 pm:
Madigan’s best bet is to retire soon. Tomorrow would be a good day. If he fails to win re-election as Speaker he will regret staying. So leave now.
- Been There - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 3:43 pm:
=====The man is 78 years old. Seriously how could there not be a tacit heir apparent even if it was not previously possible to say so publicly?==
Remember Lou Lang? Problem is Lou and others thought Madigan would retire around 8-10 years ago. Didnt happen and Lang and others moved on for various other reasons.
Madigan is the reason Sara Feigenholtz gave up her House seniority to go to the Senate
Marty Moylan’s letter makes me laugh even more now.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 5:47 pm:
MJM does not leave of his own volition. He will have to be removed. He has too much to lose if he gives up control, too many skeletons.
What will be interesting is how it all plays out and will the democrats engage in public squabbling that allows the ILGOP a shot a relevance if only for a minute.
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 7:20 pm:
Don’t count the votes before they are cast…Madigan appears to not have enough votes…today. When the caucus meets to pick a Speaker, and folks actually cast a vote…then, we will know. Until then, don’t count Madigan out.
As a hard-core Dem, I would love to see some new leadership. (DPI is so useless to anyone but a House Dem that the county Chairs had to create a parallel organization to help non-House candidates.) It has been time to move forward for 10 or 20 years; yet, Madigan remains. He is resilient. I will believe he is out as Speaker when he loses an actual vote on the Speakership. Words are just that, words.
Kelly Burke and Chris Welch might be good candidates for Speaker, but unless one of them (or someone else the House Dems would trust) is willing to stand for the job…and that stance brings huge risks if they lose…it will be Madigan again.
I’m waiting for the caucus vote. (and hoping for change)
- Twinkie Man - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 7:36 pm:
Can someone say why both the Latino and Black caucus remain mum? It’s time for a new leadership, bold ideas, transparency.
There is a reason why our nation does not have a
monarchy; why they passed a constitutional amended after FDR’s reign; we don’t have rulers like Pres. Putin (respectfully speaking).
Speaker in Jan 2021: Rep. G. Harris.
- Chatham Resident - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 7:59 pm:
Is Margaret Croke related to Ryan Croke (one of Quinn’s chiefs of staff)?
- Mal - Thursday, Nov 19, 20 @ 9:58 pm:
I had a dream Boss Madigan was watching the Training Day movie and the scene where he says “You think you can do this to me”? “You all will be playing basketball in you know where when I get through with you” lol
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Review: The We Are One Festival’s Shorts For Families Curated by Annecy Film Festival
BY Shah Shahid June 8, 2020June 8, 2020
Annecy Film Festival Shorts For Families is part of the We Are One Film Festival. The festival was the first of its kind to feature a program encompassing multiple festivals from all over the world for a virtual experience. With the world on lockdown due to COVID-19, We Are One is a global film festival to raise money for those affected by the pandemic. The festival ran for 10 days from May 29, 2020, to June 7, 2020. The Annecy Film Festival curated their own programming for the fest, one of which was the Shorts For Families.
Currently, the threat of coronavirus COVID-19 has affected industries all over the world. The film and entertainment industry has been just as affected, with there being a complete shutdown on production of new content. The effects are being felt in film industries all over the world. Many Film Festivals cancelled their events, not to mention film productions and releases as well. Filmmakers rely on these festivals to showcase and sell their movies to distributors or streaming services. Luckily, some festivals and conventions, like Comic-Con 2020, are going virtual as a workaround to the pandemic.
Similarly, the We Are One Film Festival came about as a means of still providing filmmakers and content creators a platform to showcase their work. Partnering with YouTube, the festival debuted countless films from all over the world, for free. The Annecy Film Festival from France is a festival that features some of these animated works. The Shorts For Families program at the We Are One Festival features three family-friendly short films that are sweet, funny, and incredibly well done.
Bird Karma Is A Frantic And Hilarious Take On Consequences
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The first animated film in the Annecy Film Festival Shorts For Families program is Bird Karma. The 4-minute movie is about a long-legged bird fishing for food in a pond. Having had his fill of the regular fish the pond has to offer, the bird becomes fascinated by a different kind of fish. The bright and colorful fish dips in and out of the bird’s reach, almost teasing him. The mystical fish ends up brightening the bird’s life with its rainbow streams and magical qualities. In the end, the bird still ends up eating the fish, despite the magic it brought to its life. But it’s too much for the bird to handle as the fish’s colors infect it and it keels over into the pond. The other nearby fish devour its body.
Bird Karma is a cute-at-first but quickly-turns-dark type of a short film. The karma aspect is right on point as it teaches a great lesson about actions having consequences. It’s a perfect cause-and-effect type of cautionary tale aimed at younger audiences.
Annecy Film Festival’s Shorts For Families Features Bilby As An Allegory To Parenting
Bilby is the next movie in the Annecy Film Festival Shorts For Families. The 8-minute movie is probably the best I’ve ever seen on parenting. The story is sweet, hilarious, and ultimately moving. The short is about a bilby, a type of marsupial from Australia. It opens in an Australian dessert, as the bilby is attempting to forage. Surviving many attacks by the other predators that reside in the desert, the animal finally has time to gather his food. However, when he comes across a helpless and abandoned baby bird alone in the desert, he becomes emotionally invested. Against his better judgment, he protects the baby bird a few times from the other predators. But his conscience doesn’t allow him to leave it alone to fend for itself, and he ends up protecting the bird risking his own survival in the process.
In the end, he accepts his role as the bird’s protector, as the story ends with the bird all grown up and able to provide all the fruits the bilby could ever want. Watching this short, I went through all the motions of being a parent. The frustration, irritation, constant sacrifice, and the protective instincts that come with all those feelings as well. The short film takes audiences through a wild journey full of funny and shocking moments. Ultimately, Bilby perfectly captures the essence of being a parent despite its short runtime. It’s an accomplishment on the part of the directors to be able to evoke such emotion in such a short time.
Marooned Continues The Self-Sacrifice Theme At The Annecy Film Festival Shorts For Families
For the next film, we go into outer space. The story is very Wall-E-like, about an abandoned robot on Earth’s moon. All alone and trying to get back to Earth, the robot frantically designs a ship to take him home. While scavenging for parts, he finds a smaller robot, who he brings to life using his only power source. Bonding with the small robot, the two build a spaceship to go to Earth. However, when it’s completed the first robot realizes that he used his only power source to bring the small robot to life. The short ends as the the robot uses his own power source to send his smaller friend back to Earth in the ship he made.
The message of Marooned is the same as Bilby, but a lot more heartbreaking. It’s about sacrificing one’s own desire for the ones you care about. And this time, it’s done through the eyes of an artificial being. Robots who do not speak always seem to invoke emotional reactions from audiences. Be it the aforementioned Wall-E by Disney, or R2-D2 from the Star Wars franchise, they always make us fall in love with them. Similarly, Marooned uses a lonely robot who has a very deep desire to return home, and shows us how a machine can also be capable of love and sacrifice.
The We Are One Film Festival runs until June 7, 2020, on YouTube.
Did you get a chance to check out the Annecy Film Festival Shorts For Families? Which short was your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.
Shah Shahid is an entertainment writer, movie critic (so he thinks), host of the Split Screen Podcast (on Apple Podcasts & everywhere else) and filmy father on a mission to educate his girls on decades of film history. Armed with uncontrollable sarcasm and cautious optimism, Shah loves discussing film, television and comic book content until his wife’s eyes glaze over. So save her by engaging him on his own blog at BlankPageBeatdown.com or on Twitter @theshahshahid.
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Is it possible to disable individual USB-C ports on a Windows system using a filter driver, selective suspend or something similar? The filter driver could be used to intercept PNP calls and "hide" information to the system somehow?
The most reliable way to disable USB-C ports is to fill them with silicone sealant.
There are group policies to block certain kinds of USB devices. That's usually what you want. Note that there's no reliable way for a driver to know where ports are physically located.
I don't think you understand what selective suspend is for.
Got it, so selective suspend is not a good way.
Regarding the USB ports, what you're trying to say is "there's no generic way to do that". So, the viable way would be to have lower level access, like, some ACPI methods exposed for me to do that or something like that?
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You're throwing around a lot of terminology, but it doesn't seem like you have a good idea of how the principles related to that terminology work in Windows. "Selective suspend"? "ACPI methods"? Let me guess... you're primarily a hardware person?? It's OK if you are. Some of my best friends are hardware people... ;-)
Look: The bottom line here is that you're going to need to tell us more about what you want to do.
It is entirely possible to write a filter driver that will block the attachment of USB devices. What Mr. Roberts was saying, and quite correctly too, is that it's exceedingly difficult to know a-priori the internal topology for a given physical USB port on your computer. That is, you can pretty easily POINT to the port you want to block, but knowing WHICH port that is internally (from your driver) isn't simple... or likely even possible.
Now, if you're making an embedded system, where the configuration of every machine is predictably the same... then, well, maybe there's a way.
Or if you just don't want ANY devices to be connected via USB, there are certainly ways to accomplish that.
Peter Viscarola
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Haha I'm a software guy but I'm really new into Driver Development so I don't know the concepts very well and I'm learning what I can.
Thanks a lot for the patience, guys.
Anyways, let me try to clarify. I have an specific Windows Workstation (the hardware is fixed, for the moment, so I think it's easier to try to map the "logical port" to the physical port) that I want to be able to disable specific USB-C ports (for example, an application that an Administrator can check which ports are enabled or not, by user, etc.). Here's what I thought:
The best scenario (if possible): the user plugs any device - it won't even power on. So I thought I could use the selective suspend somehow to reduce the power to a device. But I don't know if it's a good way because selective suspend must be supported, right? By the controller? By the device? By both?;
The acceptable scenario: Use a filter driver to block the attachment of USB devices - the hardware is fixed, so I think I can guess the physical port, right? The device will power on but it will not be shown in Device Manager.
I'm ok with the "acceptable scenario". Do you guys think it's feasible? What would I need? A Lower-Level Filter Driver? Is there any sample that could me help to achieve this feature?
That's MUCH more clear. Thanks.
Well... Hmmmm... I haven't tried it, but at least theoretically if you could identify which port, on which hub, you wanted to power off, you should be able to power it off using Clear Hub Feature with the "feature selector" being PORT_POWER. See page 437 of the USB 3.2 spec. Just in case you're not aware (no offense, but I have no way of knowing what you know about the basics of USB)... every USB port is managed by a hub, even the ones that come right off the USB controller. The USB Host Controller always has (one or more) integral hubs associated with it. It's the USB HUB driver (and not the USB Host Controller Driver) the enumerates newly arrived USB devices.
So... that could be a way forward for you.
Peter gave a good answer, much better than my snarky one. I happen to have a particular aversion to driver projects whose primary aim is to PREVENT the normal operation of my Windows system, as yours is, so my sarcasm boils to the surface.
The problem with selective suspend is that it is managed by the hub driver, based on the current state of the system and its child devices. There's no way for you to interfere in its decision process. If you tried to force a port into selective suspend, the hub driver would stubbornly put things back.
However, the PORT_POWER thing is a possibility. You can shut down individual ports that way. I'm not sure it would survive sleep/resume, but that's an issue you could work on. Most hubs can be addressed from user mode; I'm not sure you'd even need a driver. Look, for example, at the USBView sample app. It communicates directly with the hubs to get the information it needs.
@Peter_Viscarola_(OSR) said:
Hmmm nice, I wasn't aware. Thanks a lot for the informations. I'll study the feature you talked on the spec. Thanks a lot for all the information.
@Tim_Roberts said:
No problem about the snarky answer haha :-) I laughed out loud, actually.
Regarding the hubs addressable from user mode, that's great news. I'll look into that also. Thank you!
I happen to have a particular aversion to driver projects whose primary aim is to PREVENT the normal operation of my Windows system
Ordinarily, me too. But, you know, not every system running Windows is an "ordinary" Windows system. Consider systems that are used to host machine tools and control processes. These systems are "Windows PCs" in name only. They're (usually) air-gapped, and one of the few potential vectors for infections are the USB drives. They can't silicone the ports, because they need to be able to use specifically authorized USB drives to move "stuff" around... like design files, or machine setting updates. Plus, these systems often have keyboards and mice and button pads and joysticks that are USB connected.
We've spent the last several years working with a major industrial security vendor to build and refine a complex security system for USB devices in such settings. It fills a real need.
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The best scenario (if possible): the user plugs any device - it won't even power on
Disabling USP ports or specific devices/classes is a quite common need (as Peter noted), so you can google around and find a ready solution for this. Get it right now, no development & testing time, no bluescreens.
The type C, however, is a less familiar point. Is there a requirement specific for type C? Like, disable high-power charging from the port (without any i/o at all)?
-- pa
@Pavel_A said:
Yeah, it's a requirement of my client... Anyway, for USB ports do you have any link for the examples? Maybe it can be similar for USB Type-C...
There are examples of hub access from usermode, based IIRC on some Intel's example from WinXP times.
Some classes of devices can be disabled by Windows group policy - no coding needed at all.
For useful start in USB hub filtering, see here: https://github.com/freedesktop/spice-usbdk
Sorry I cannot share code from commercial projects. In the linuxy opensourcey world, when they make anything, they put it on GitHub and write a dozen blogs and tweets. Not so in Windows.
Again, consider a ready product. Reinventing a wheel is not cool. If the UI needs customization, maybe they can do that.
Unless, there's some special new type C quirk - as type C connector is more than USB.
I think I must have missed something, but is this all devices on a particular port, or particular devices (inclusively or exclusively) on any port?
the viability of any solution on any os depends to a great extent on these answers i think
Thank you, that link will help a lot! What ready product would you recommend?
@MBond2 said:
The requirement is to disable an specific physical port so, any device will be attached.
I believe the easiest way (althought extremely not recommended), would be to hook the PnP major dispatch of the USB Hub Driver and return an invalid NTSTATUS whenever it is an arrival of a (No idea how you're going to detect this) USB-C device.
This will most likely display a warning icon in the Device Manager for the USB Hub Driver.
Post edited by ThatsBerkan on November 2020
would be to hook the PnP major dispatch of the USB Hub Driver
That is not a good idea, or anything remotely like a supported approach.
We have filter drivers in Windows for a reason.
What ready product would you recommend?
Most of so called "endpoint security" products have some kind of USB control.
I haven't used this stuff recently (concur with Mr. Roberts on products that exist to tamper with normal operation of my Windows system)
If you find the freedesktop link interesting, the maintainers of this thing are on this forum. They may be able to help you.
adriano_lemos Member Posts: 2
Hi, please forgive my ignorance, but I have the same problem which I intend to approach by developing a USB Bus Filter Driver (UpperFilter) to change the DEVICE_RELATIONS list after the Bus responded to the PNP_MN_QUERY_DEVICE_RELATIONS, whenever a new device is plugged in an arbitrary USB port. The intention is to "soft disable" that port by preventing any new device connecting to it from being enumerated.
Is it possible to write this as a KMDF USB Hub Filter Driver (maybe modifying one of the sample drivers from Microsoft's Github)?
Thanks in advance and, again, forgive me if I misunderstood some basic concept for I'm new to this kind of endeavor.
Adriano Lemos.
Mark_Roddy Member - All Emails Posts: 4,391
November 2020 via Email
Yes it is possible to write a bus filter driver for usb. It is a lot of
work. KMDF does not support bus filter drivers, but with a bit of effort
you can use kmdf to do most of the work and then escape out of kmdf to do
the rest using WDM.
Mark Roddy
Thanks @Mark_Roddy. Much appreciated the information.
Can you (or any member) point me to some repository or post with sample code showing how I could accomplish this task? That could save me an awful lot of time.
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NOVEL - Daniel Gold Collection
A collection of video relating to the diagnosis and treatment of eye movement disorders. This collection includes many demonstrations of examination techniques. Dan Gold, D.O. Associate Professor of Neurology, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Medicine The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine A collection of video relating to the diagnosis and treatment of eye movement disorders. NOVEL: novel.utah.edu
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1 A Comparison of Nystagmus and Saccadic Intrusions/Oscillations Nystagmus can be classified into pendular and jerk waveforms, where both are generated by a slow, pathologic phase. Corrective phase (the position reset mechanism) differs. In pendular nystagmus, the eyes move back and forth with about the same velocity and amplitude, similar to that of a pendulum... Image
2 Brainstem Ocular Motor Machinery Seen here is a sagittal view of the brainstem. The medulla has a significant role in gaze-holding, and the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH, along with the medial vestibular nucleus ) is the horizontal neural integrator. The abducens (6th) nucleus is located in the dorsal pons, and sends off the 6... Image/MovingImage
3 Central Anatomy of the Fourth Nerve The IVth or trochlear nucleus is located ventral to the central periaqueductal grey matter, dorsal to the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) and medial to the oculosympathetic tract at the level of the inferior colliculus. The fascicles of the IVth nerve travel dorsally and caudally around the cen... Image/MovingImage
4 Central Anatomy of the Third Nerve Seen here is an axial section of the midbrain at the level of the superior colliculus. The paired nuclei are located ventral to the periaqueductal grey, and the midline central caudal nucleus (CCN) is located between the right and left nuclei. The CCN sends projections to bilateral levator palpebrae... Image
5 Coronal Section of the Brainstem Showing Ocular Motor Nuclei and Anatomy of the Vestibular Nucleus (with SCC Inputs) (A) Seen here is a coronal view of the brainstem showing the locations of the ocular motor nuclei (IIIrd, IVth, VIth) as well as the nuclei of VII and VIII (vestibular and cochlear). The vestibular nucleus (VN) is divided into the inferior, lateral, medial, and superior subnuclei, and the medial ves... Image
6 Eyelid Anatomy Seen here are the major muscles of eyelid opening and closure. The levator palpebrae, which is innervated by the oculomotor nerve, inserts on the tarsus via the levator aponeurosis and directly on the skin of the upper eyelid. The superior tarsal muscle (also known as Muller's muscle, which is inner... Image
7 Medullary Structures Relevant to the Ocular Motor and Vestibular Consequences of Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg) Syndrome This is an axial section of the medulla showing the structures that, when damaged, are responsible for the vestibular and ocular motor features of the lateral medullary or Wallenberg syndrome. The nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH) and medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) complex is important for horizo... Image
8 Medullary Structures Relevant to Upbeat Nystagmus This is an axial section of the medulla, slightly more caudal as compared to (please refer to figure "medullary structures relevant to the ocular motor and vestibular consequences of the lateral medullary (Wallenberg) syndrome). Again seen are the inferior cerebellar peduncle (ICP) and caudal aspect... Image
9 Neuro-Ophthalmic Features and Pseudo-MG Lid Signs in Miller Fisher Syndrome - Figure 1 This is a 51-year-old woman who presented with imbalance, acute onset dizziness and diplopia that developed over three days following two weeks of upper respiratory infection and bacterial conjunctivitis. When she was initially seen as an outpatient, nystagmus was noted to the right and left, and a ... Image
10 Ocular Motor & Vestibular Features of the MLF Syndrome - Figures 1, 2, and 3 This 61-year-old woman with HTN and DM presented for evaluation of acute onset diagonal diplopia. Adduction OS was about 60% of normal while medialization OS improved with convergence. In right gaze, dissociated abducting nystagmus was present OD, and there was a clear adduction lag when asking he... Image
11 Oculopalatal Tremor with Prominent Nystagmus, Bilateral Horizontal Gaze Palsy, and Bilateral Facial Palsies Figure 1 Figure 1, MRI T2 sequence demonstrating hyperintensities involving bilateral inferior olives of the medulla. This is a 50-year-old woman who experienced the acute onset of right sixth and seventh nerve palsies and left hemiparesis. Two cavernomas within the right pons (one in the region of the facia... Image
12 Periodic Alternating Nystagmus Due to Nodulus Stroke - Figure 1 This is a 70-year-old woman who experienced the acute onset of vertigo and imbalance. MRI demonstrated a diffusion-weighted imaging hyperintensity involving the nodulus (with corresponding ADC hypointensity) consistent with an acute stroke. On examination several weeks after the stroke, periodic alt... Image
13 Pons: 6th and 7th Nerve Anatomy and the Central Segmental Tract From this cross-section of the pons, the proximity of the 6th nucleus to the 7th nerve fascicles is apparent. This is the basis of the so-called facial colliculus syndrome, where an ipsilesional horizontal gaze palsy from a nuclear 6th lesion (usually related to stroke or demyelination) can be seen ... Image
14 Pons: 6th, 7th, 8th, and Middle Cerebellar Peduncle Anatomy From this cross-section of the pons, the proximity of the 7th and 8th fascicles can be appreciated, and a lateral inferior pontine syndrome (anterior inferior cerebellar artery territory), which could involve both of these fascicles, could cause acute prolonged vertigo accompanied by a + ipsilateral... Image
15 Relationship Between Semicircular Canals and Extraocular Muscles Figure 1: When stimulated, each of the 6 angular acceleration detecting semicircular canals (3 on the right and 3 on the left) responds with a conjugate eye movement, with the vector(s) indicated below. PC=posterior canal; HC=horizontal (also known as lateral) canal; AC=anterior (also known as super... Image
16 Saccadic Pathways in the Brainstem and Cerebellum & Mechanism for Saccadic Dysmetria in Wallenberg Syndrome - Abnormal Function of the Brainstem/Cerebellar Saccadic Pathways with a Left Wallenberg Syndrome The end result of a lesion involving the climbing fibers within the left lateral medulla is deficient rightward saccades (contralesional hypometric saccades), and over-active leftward saccades (ipsilesional hypermetric saccades), and ipsilesional ocular lateropulsion given this baseline imbalance. M... Image
17 Saccadic Pathways in the Brainstem and Cerebellum & Mechanism for Saccadic Dysmetria in Wallenberg Syndrome - Normal Function of the Brainstem/Cerebellar Saccadic Pathways The inferior cerebellar peduncle (ICP) carries climbing fibers to the dorsal vermis, and these fibers have an inhibitory influence over the Purkinje cells. These Purkinje cells normally inhibit the ipsilateral fastigial nucleus, and the fastigial nucleus projects to the contralateral inhibitory burs... Image
18 Sagittal Section of the Brainstem Showing Structures Related to Normal Eyelid Function Seen here is a sagittal view of the brainstem, with the structures relevant to normal eyelid function highlighted. The M-group, which can be found medial to the riMLF (coordinates eye and lid movements), has (weak) projections to the facial nucleus for frontalis muscle contraction, and (strong) proj... Image
19 Sagittal Section of the Midbrain Showing Structures Related to Normal Eyelid Function During a vertical saccade, the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus (riMLF) is activated, which excites the superior rectus (SR) and inferior oblique (IO) (IIIrd nerve) subnuclei. Additionally, the riMLF activates the nearby M-group. The M-group's primary excitatory out... Image
20 Subtle Torsional Pendular Nystagmus in Oculopalatal Tremor (OPT) - Figure 1 This is a 50-year-old woman who presented with imbalance, and MRI demonstrated a right cerebellar cavernous malformation. She underwent surgery to resect the malformation, and post-operatively experienced right hemiparesis and ataxia. Six months after the surgery, balance worsened and vision became ... Image/MovingImage
21 Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret Seen here is a schematic representation of the Gullain-Mollaret triangle (Figure 1), also referred to as the dentato-olivary pathway, reflecting the 3 points of this imaginary triangle - 1) dentate nucleus, 2) red nucleus, and 3) inferior olivary nucleus. The olive sends decussating climbing fibers ... Image
22 Using Video Head Impulse Testing to Unmask Covert Saccades in Compensated Vestibular Neuritis - Figures 1 and 2 This is a 30-year-old woman who experienced the acute vestibular syndrome (prolonged vertigo for >24 hours, nausea, unsteadiness, spontaneous nystagmus, head motion intolerance) and was diagnosed with vestibular neuritis. This diagnosis was based on a positive head impulse test to the left (see Figu... Image
23 The Utriculo-Ocular Motor Pathways - Physiologic and Pathologic Ocular Tilt Reaction: OTR Diagram Pathologic EOMs Labelled (Figure 3) A skew deviation is a non-paralytic vertical ocular misalignment that is due to imbalance in the utriculo-ocular motor pathways. While vestibular jerk nystagmus is a consequence of static semicircular canal pathway imbalance (e.g., left-beating nystagmus due to acute right vestibular hypofunction fr... Image
24 The Utriculo-Ocular Motor Pathways - Physiologic and Pathologic Ocular Tilt Reaction: Pathologic OTR (Figure 2) A skew deviation is a non-paralytic vertical ocular misalignment that is due to imbalance in the utriculo-ocular motor pathways. While vestibular jerk nystagmus is a consequence of static semicircular canal pathway imbalance (e.g., left-beating nystagmus due to acute right vestibular hypofunction fr... Image
25 The Utriculo-Ocular Motor Pathways - Physiologic and Pathologic Ocular Tilt Reaction: Physiologic Ocular Tilt Reaction (OTR) (Figure 1) A skew deviation is a non-paralytic vertical ocular misalignment that is due to imbalance in the utriculo-ocular motor pathways. While vestibular jerk nystagmus is a consequence of static semicircular canal pathway imbalance (e.g., left-beating nystagmus due to acute right vestibular hypofunction fr... Image
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Dispatch From The Avant-Garde: Joshua Previews The Currents Section At NYFF 2020
Among the myriad of films playing as part of the annual New York Film Festival, few sections carry with them as exciting a selection as that of the Currents sidebar (formerly known as Views From The Avant-Garde and Projections). More or less the festival’s “experimental” section, this sidebar finds the festival and their most progressive and boundary pushing. Collecting 14 features and eight separate programs of shorts, the Currents selection collects the latest and greatest from the avant garde, films from across the globe that highlight new and exciting voices experimenting with new and exciting modes of visual storytelling.
Take, for example, the opening night film, The Inheritance. From director Ephraim Asili comes this Philadelphia-set drama, which itself blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction while standing as a vehicle for expression of black liberation. Mixing a documentary about the Philadelphia liberationist group MOVE with a fictional work about a collective trying to reach some semblance of political consensus, the film is a gorgeous and evocative work of cinematic revolution. With clear influences ranging from Tarkovsky to Sam Greenlee’s seminal The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Asili’s film owes its greatest debt to the work of Jean-Luc Godard, whose iconic La Chinoise plays not only as a literal reference (a poster is seen throughout) but its closest stylistic relative as well. The photography here is utterly breathtaking, and each performance is properly textured and modulated as to not just elevate the film beyond something that could have been stale and stagnant, but to give this politically charged feature a definite humanity and heart.
Three other films that attempt to challenge what we view as cinema on a formal level are also three of this lineup’s strongest works. First there’s the film with the best title in the lineup, There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse. The third film from director Nicolas Zukerfeld, Thirty-Six Ways is drawn from an alleged quote given by director Raoul Walsh, whose body of work becomes much of the focus for this fascinating piece of work. A film of two halves, the film opens with a lengthy bit of narrative, using clips from Walsh’s film to reformulate a narrative all Zukerfeld’s own. Following this fun bit of storytelling, Zukerfeld reverts back to the director himself, exploring the very quote from which the film’s title is drawn. This essay-style film is an engrossing exploration of narrative and the extent film craft can in turn criticize the medium in and of itself. (Also noteworthy, the film will be playing with director Guy Maddin’s latest short, Stump The Guesser)
Another film that similarly makes a point to explore the form of film regarding its relationship to text is Her Socialist Smile. John Gianvito’s new film takes a look at the life and time of Helen Keller, particularly her relationship to the progressive movements that she became an outspoken proponent of. Using lengthy blocks of text from Keller’s own speech as well as a mix of voiceover and archival materials, Gianvito’s film is an emotionally devastating work despite its admittedly stiff formalism. A testament to Keller’s import as a leftist political figure, Her Socialist Smile is a fascinating look into the history of progressive movements at the turn of the century, an interest of the director throughout his career. There’s simply nothing like it in this festival’s lineup.
The final film of this makeshift trilogy is a new film from director Nuria Gimenez entitled My Mexican Bretzel. Maybe the most formally inventive film in this trio, Gimenez’s debut feature takes home movies from Vivian Barret and her WWII fighter pilot husband Leon, pairing these gorgeous home movies with subtitles taken from Vivian’s own diaries, making a strange narrative of sorts that’s equal parts surreal and incredibly moving. The source home movies are almost impressionistic in their color and the graininess of the footage, pairing wonderfully with the increasingly unpredictable and otherworldly narrative. It’s truly a fascinating and oddly stirring experiment in form and narrative.
Not all these films are from directors making their debuts, however. Two of the more well known directors in the lineup have three films screening as part of this lineup. Two of them are from genius auteur Heinz Emigholz. The Last City and it’s quasi-sequel The Lobby are featured here, with the former being one of the director’s more ambitious and impressive works yet in his storied career. More or less a collection of conversations about everything from war to poverty set against a collection of five gorgeous cities, the film is a strangely funny and compelling rumination on everything from performance to modern intellectualism as part of urban landscapes. The Lobby, on the other hand, is a decidedly small scale picture, but no less entrancing. This time focusing on one man as he filibusters throughout various hotel and apartment lobbies, the film sits firmly to the left of most modern essay films, quite literally placing itself as one man’s own dissertations on everything from life to death while encased in urban modernity. The other auteurist gem comes from the late director Raul Ruiz and the woman who has, since his death, made it her life to finish the director’s final films, entitled The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror. Another surreal and impressionistic work from the great Chilean filmmaker, this follows a professor as he slowly devolves into madness as the wall between his dreams and his everyday life slowly crumbles following the death of his wife. Slowly becoming one of the director’s more nightmarish efforts, this brisk 65 minute masterpiece will surely be one of the more talked about films in this lineup.
Shorts are also incredibly important with regards to this collection of films, as there are eight separate programs pertaining to everything from stories about New York like Ricky D’Ambrose’s incredible and poignant Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday to a series called “Code Unknown,” led by the latest collaboration from director Sofia Bohdanowicz and star Deragh Campbell (MS Slavic 7). In this gorgeously shot 18 minute feature (shot brilliantly on 16mm) Point and Line To Plane draws its title from an essay penned by painter Wassily Kandinsky, whose paintings provide part of the backdrop to this devastating story of loss and memory through art. Other highlight from this section include Ben Rivers’ hypnotic Look Then Below and the brazenly radical Labor of Love from director Sylvia Schedelbauer, both of whom are featured in Program 4, “There Are Other Worlds They Have Not Told You Of,” probably the single most excited section within this part of the Currents lineup.
For more information head to the New York Film Festival’s official website.
Joshua Reviews Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit [NYFF 2020]
With a firecracker performance from Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit is an entrancing, if uneven, familial farce.
Joshua Reviews Christian Petzold’s Undine [NYFF 2020]
Christian Petzold returns with a beautiful and heart-breaking riff on a classic myth.
Joshua Reviews Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning [NYFF 2020]
Marking one of the more incredible feature directing debuts, Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning is a soul-shattering drama, and an announcement of a major talent on the world cinema stage.
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Coronavirus pauses Seattle's cruise season
The move, prompted by Canada's own reckoning with COVID-19, will deal a major blow to the local economy.
David Kroman
A Norwegian Cruise Line ship docked near downtown Seattle, Aug. 2, 2014. Canadian authorities closed ports to cruise ships March 13, 2020, forcing Seattle to close all routes between Alaska and Seattle until July 1. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Seattle’s cruise season looks to be ending before it even starts. Because of a decision by Canadian ports to shut down cruises amid the outbreak of COVID-19 and the intricacies of international maritime law, cruise ship traffic into the city will grind to a halt until at least July 1, a loss of up to 90 sailings and about 40% of the total season.
Port of Seattle spokesperson Peter McGraw said it is still early and the Port is exploring options. He didn't elaborate.
"All aspects of the Port’s operations are impacted by the global response to COVID-19, including Canada’s decision to suspend its cruise season," the Port of Seattle said in a statement.
The impact of the Canadian decision could be enormous on Seattle’s tourist season. The Port of Seattle last year estimated each ship brings an average of $4.2 million to the local economy, pumped into nearby restaurants and shops, especially at Pike Place Market.
The Port of Seattle announced earlier this week it was canceling its first two sailings of the year. Princess Cruises also said it would shut down for two months.
But Friday’s news could go well beyond the preliminary cancellations.
The reason for the loss is a complicated set of maritime laws, specifically the Jones Act. The act dictates that ships built somewhere other than the United States that are not majority-owned and crewed by Americans cannot pass directly between two U.S. ports. This includes all cruise ships.
To get around this requirement, cruise ships sailing between Seattle and Alaska stop in British Columbia, often Victoria, between destinations.
On Friday, however, Canadian authorities announced the country would suspend its cruise season until July 1. As a result, ships sailing between Alaska and Seattle may not stop in Canada.
“We respect the decision by the Government of Canada in putting health and safety of Canadians first,” the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority said in a statement Friday. “We will work to engage with our cruise partners and terminal operators to comply with the decision.”
Businesses in and around Seattle area are already taking huge hits as elected officials urge widespread “social distancing” and avoidance of crowded spaces. The nearly three-month suspension of cruise season is a sign the economic pain is not likely to be short-lived.
How Tugboat Annie pulled Seattle onto the silver screen
The smash hit 1930s film was the first Hollywood movie to feature the Emerald City.
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Public health experts are racing to prepare communities for the vaccine, but they face notable hurdles.
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Supporting kids during the pandemic rivals the challenges of vaccine distribution. We must get this right.
Jennifer Stuber &
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Changing Region,
David Kroman is a staff reporter at Crosscut focused on local politics. Find him on Twitter at @KromanDavid or email at david.kroman@crosscut.com.
What 2020 taught us about Washington’s partisan divide
We surveyed a lot of Washingtonians of all political stripes last year. This is what their answers told us.
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Build Wisely, Build Strongly, Build Beautifully
By Most Illustrious Companion John D. Barnes
Past Most Illustrious Grand Master and Grand Treasurer, Grand Council of New Jersey
King Solomon's Temple
(Photo Credit: Ancient-origins.net)
'When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.'
-John Muir
My Companion:
I recently saw a video about how the return of wolves to Yellowstone Nation Park changed the rivers within the park. The video referred to something called a ”trophic cascade”, which Wikipedia defines as “when predators in a food web suppress the abundance and/or alter traits (e.g., behavior) of their prey, thereby releasing the next lower trophic level from predation (or herbivory if the intermediate trophic level is an herbivore). … A Top Down Cascade is a trophic cascade where the food chain or food web is disrupted by the removal of a top predator,…a bottom-up cascade occurs when a primary producer or primary consumer is removed, and there is a diminishment of population size through the community. “The wolves chased the large grazing animals, who had eaten too much ground cover, leaving better vegetation to hold soil, which made for better river banks, and so on down the line. Removing or adding something in the chain changes the dynamics of the whole system.
In architecture, if you add too many stones to the top of a wall, it will topple. If you take away too many stones from the foundation of a wall, it will topple. If you take too many stones out of the middle, the wall will topple. As Speculative Masons, we are taught to erect our buildings on the square, making them plumb and level. As Capitular Masons, we are taught to make them complete, whole, and beautiful. And as Cryptic masons, we are taught to adorn them with the work of skilled artisans. From our first Degrees in Masonry, we have been taught that a building is more than the sum of its parts and that its part must work in harmony if the building is to be pleasing to the eye and to the heart.
It’s the same within our Councils. Too many Past Thrice Illustrious Masters leads to too many leaders, and a failed Council. Not enough members, especially members who actually attend the Assemblies, leads to an empty room, and a failed Council. And not having enough new Companions, to replace those lost to the ravages of time, leads to overburdened attendees, and a failed Council.
Unlike in nature, where each species’ place in the food chain is fixed, your place in Masonry is what you make it. You were first a Symbolic Mason, then you grew in Light and Knowledge, and became a Capitular Mason. You’ve learned and grown some more, and are now a Cryptic Mason. At one time you were “The New Guy”, then you became a regular attendee. You volunteered to be an Officer and to help confer Degrees. You may have even become a Thrice Illustrious Master, and then a Right Illustrious, and perhaps even a Most Illustrious. You built yourself up, using all the Working Tools of your profession, to be the best you can be.
Build wisely. Build strongly. Build beautifully.
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Compliance supplement for audits of institutions of higher learning and other non-profit institutions.
United States. Office of Management and Budget.
Washington, D.C.? : Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget [1991]
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Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm.
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Coronavirus Restrictions Cut Chicago Electric Scooter Ridership by 20%. Now the City Wants Your Opinion
Chicago’s four-month-long e-scooter pilot program has come to an end. Data from the city showed that ridership was down by more than 20% year-over-year, due to the coronavirus lockdowns. Mayor Lori Lightfoot mandated another stay at home order effective November 16, and Governor Pritzker has closed museums, covention centers, theaters, casinos, indoor sports, indoor dining, reduced capacity at stores, and placed even stricter rules on gyms and salons. All of this reduces the need for scooter rideshare.
Since mid-August, people have used the E-scooter program 640,000 times, a drop from 821,000 times last year. Both the 2019 and 2020 pilot programs ran for four months; however, the 2019 pilot program covered an area 75% smaller, with 75% fewer scooters than this year’s pilot. That’s according to the data released by the Chicago Department of Transportation and Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. That makes the drop in ridership even more dramatic.
On the other hand, the data also showed that the average ride was 1.71 miles, 14% more than the average during the 2019 pilot program. That could indicate that people were actually commuting, rather than just trying the scooters out.
Delayed Due to the Coronavirus Response
This year’s e-scooter pilot program was put on hold for a few months, due to the coronavirus. The 2019 program ran during the summer, from June 15 to October 15; while this year’s program ran during the autumn and winter, from mid-August to mid-December. That means cold weather likely played a role in the dramatic drop in ridership.
The 2020 launch featured three companies, Spin, Lime, and Bird, operating 3,333 scooters each, for a total of nearly 10,000 scooters. The areas of the city in which the scooter companies could operate were also increased.
Last year, the scooter pilot program had 10 vendors operating 2,500 scooters in a 50 square-mile area, including parts of the West and Northwest, from Irving Park Road to the South Branch of the Chicago River. This year’s pilot more or less included the entire city, except for downtown and the Lakefront Trail. That is an area four times larger than last year’s.
Equitable Distribution of E-Scooters
The three companies were required to put half of the electric scooters in the equity priority areas of the West and South sides of Chicago. Only around 160,000 rides, or 25% of the rides this year, occurred in those areas, according to the data. Those equitable distribution regulations seem to have marginally improved transportation options in those underserved communities.
While scooter rides were down for this year, city officials indicated that changes to the program helped reduced resident complaints and sidewalk clutter; specifically, a “lock-to” requirement, making it mandatory for the scooters to have built-in cable locks for locking them to poles or bike racks. That appears to have reduced 311 service requests by a 79% drop in complaints compared to 2019.
The City Wants Your Opinion
The City of Chicago is asking for your opinion concerning the future of rentable scooters in the city. BACP and CDOT plan to evaluate the program, and will take the survey results into account, as well as ride data and feedback from the operators. The city has also partnered with UIC researchers to better understand the demographics of the riders, reasons for the trips, as well as any ideas for improving the future of the shared e-scooter service.
Residents can take part in the online survey through January 7.
After analyzing the survey data and completing the evaluation, BACP and CDOT will work with aldermen and residents to decide if e-scooters should be approved permanently. That report should be completed sometime in early 2021. Also, the raw trip data from the 2020 pilot program will be available on the Chicago Open Data Portal.
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We've partnered with Corporate Visions to transform the [customer] conversation in so many different ways... They've helped us dig deep and truly reflect upon what makes us special.
Andrea ArmstrongVP Global Commercial Operations, Aon Hewitt
For Aon Hewitt, the biggest messaging obstacle the company faced had to do with making the move from fact- or product-based conversations to more client-centric ones, where insights drive the dialogue.
“We had a tendency to focus inward, and on what’s most comfortable, and that was our features and benefits, versus actually getting into the heads and minds of our clients,” according to Andrea Armstrong, VP global commercial operations at Aon Hewitt.
Another challenge the company had to confront: executive engagement and selling skills. Traditionally, Aon Hewitt’s typical customers were in mid- to senior-level management. But as the company has brought new solutions to market, buyers in new roles—often higher up the org chart—are increasingly becoming the people their salespeople need to be fluent with in their sales conversations. According to Armstrong, their buyers are now CFOs, CIOs and CHROs.
To deliver better executive proposals, and to really speak the language of buyers in the C-suite, the company knew it needed to improve the depth and breadth of its relationships with decision-makers in these roles.
Aon Hewitt leveraged Corporate Visions’ cross-functional messaging workshop, Create Value Messages, and two of its skills training programs, Create Value Skills and Elevate Value Skills, to improve their ability to differentiate their message and engage C-suite decision-makers.
Armstrong said these messaging and skills programs have been instrumental in helping Aon Hewitt transform their customer conversations.
She said: “We’ve partnered with Corporate Visions to transform the [customer] conversation in so many different ways, whether it’s becoming smarter and more articulating in partnering with executives and understanding what’s most important to them, or whether it’s taking that step back and saying: what we know about our differentiation is actually kind of parity. It’s actually the same as everyone else. And so they’ve helped us to dig and truly reflect upon what makes us special.”
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“We’ve partnered with Corporate Visions to transform the [customer] conversation in so many different ways,” Armstrong said. “They’ve helped us to dig deep and truly reflect upon what makes us special.”
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‘Riverdale’ Season 5 Trailer: The 15 Biggest Moments
By Alex Zalben Twitter @azalben Dec 9, 2020 at 2:37pm
We’re still a ways away from the January 20 premiere of Riverdale Season 5, but thanks to today’s trailer release we finally have a look at what will happen with the Town With Pep when the series returns — and beyond.
That’s because while Season 5 will kick off with the mostly-filmed Season 4, Episode 20 (now the Season 5 premiere) set at the Riverdale High Senior Prom, after three episodes wrapping up Season 4 the show will jump seven years into the future. That means new status quos, new relationships, and new mysteries for the no-longer teens of Riverdale.
Before Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse), Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) and the rest of the gang return, though, it’s time to deal with prom… And the fallout from a certain kiss last season. Let’s take a too-deep dive into the recently released footage, and wildly speculate about what it can all mean.
That’s right, folks: here are the 15 biggest moments from the Riverdale Season 5 trailer.
Photo: The CW
Under the opening narration via the recently imprisoned Stonewall Prep student Bret Weston Wallis (Sean Depner), we see Jughead lighting a match. In case you can’t read upside-down script writing, Mr. Jones is reading Dune by Frank Herbert. Perhaps to bone up before the upcoming Timothée Chalamet movie? The bigger question is why he’s sitting in the dark at all – and what secrets does the book hold? The spice, after all, is life.
The Video Is Coming From Inside The House
Next up, as Wallis continues, we see shaky camera footage of Betty and Jughead sleeping. In case you forgot, one of the big mysteries in Season 4 was the identity of The Voyeur (or identities), the mysterious group that was first taking video of people’s doors, then recreating murders, and now they seem to be wandering in to watch people sleep. Yikes!
Return Of The Mack
“Something’s coming, and it’s going to hit you like a mack truck,” finishes Wallis, as Betty and Jughead interrogate him in jail. The most interesting thing about this line is that, while most of the footage in the trailer looks like it comes from the Season 5 premiere, which was previously the twentieth episode of Season 4, we already know that the post-time jump, Season 5 mystery will involve a trucker prowling The Lonely Highway, and we’ve seen art of a blonde woman running away from his 18-wheeler. So is Wallis teasing the Voyeur mystery? Or is “hit you like a mack truck” setting up the next one?
Bughead To Head
…and then after a montage reminding viewers about the Voyeur mystery, we get a scene of Betty and Jughead. What’s most interesting about this, I’d argue, is not the requisite sexy times that helped put Riverdale on the map, but the expressions on the duo’s faces. We know that Jughead will find out about Betty kissing Archie back in Season 4 — and given their conflicted, sad expressions is this scene leading off that revelation? And if so, is this make-up sex… Or break-up sex?
“This will be the last dance with our friends,” says Archie to Veronica post-boxing match. “Can’t miss it.” Though everything seems copasetic in the prom scenes — Veronica and Archie dancing, the assembled teens (and guest star Zane Holtz as KO Kelly, from spinoff Katy Keene) all toasting — it’s clear this is before the Barchie Bomb gets dropped. Something that happens almost immediately in the trailer, but first…
Always Stay Vigilant(e)
It’s an extremely blink-and-you-miss-it moment, but it sure looks like Archie is once again donning his vigilante costume — and once again, coming to blows with Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos). An extra clue that this murky scene is Archie vs. Hiram, round 1000? What looks like bottles of the Lodge family’s rum.
Veronica Lodges A Complaint
…and here it is, the moment Varchie (Veronica and Archie) ‘shippers have been dreading for nearly a full year: Veronica has clearly figured out that, as she says, “something happened between Betty and Archie,” though she doesn’t seem to know they kissed while practicing for the school musical. Fans have been speculating that, after Archie sings a full version of “Carry The Torch,” the song he wrote for Betty, at prom, Veronica will figure things out. However it goes down, looks like Varchie may be going down, too.
Who? Who Is That?
…and now here’s something we haven’t seen before. While investigating what looks like a flophouse rave, Jughead and Betty discover someone in a bizarre owl mask filming them. The Voyeur(s) showed up last season wearing similar, seemingly homemade masks; but so far, they’ve been classic comic book versions of the characters in the show. So who (who) is behind the mask? And why an owl?
Flash Dance
Then we’re on to a quick montage: Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), I’d bet getting ready for prom using her signature color lipstick; the prom dance floor; another dance, this time at that flophouse rave (or whatever it is); and then, most disturbing of all, grainy footage of Cheryl’s blood-covered dress at Thistle House. Is the HBIC of Riverdale High in trouble?
A Game Of Hangman
…and then we’re back to the plot, as Betty and Jughead, along with their half-brother Charles Smith (Wyatt Nash) observe a man hanging from a noose in what looks like might be the abandoned cabin inhabited by The Voyeur last season. The reverse angle of the shot, seen through a fisheye lens, shows that this is seemingly the same man wearing the owl mask. Is this the sad end of the Voyeur mystery? Or another swerve? Either way, as Betty says right after, “I’m never going to get that image out of my head.”
Bizarro Prom
After two scenes of fighting — Jughead at what looks like the flophouse, and presumably a crowd watching KO Kelly and Archie’s exhibition match — we get a glimpse of what might go terribly wrong at prom… Because you can’t have a Riverdale dance without things going horribly wrong. Here, the Voyeur Gang is glimpsed dressed in those creepy masks and holding knives. Are they the ones who reveal Betty and Archie’s lip-lock?
"What The Hell Just Happened?"
The boys — KO, Reggie Mantle (Charles Melton), Fangs Fogarty (Drew Ray Tanner) and Kevin Keller (Casey Cott) — look on as something weird happens. I’m mostly posting this because it’s a fun pic of the boys all dressed up. Hey, here’s some bonus pics of Varchie and Choni (Cheryl and Toni Topaz, played by Vanessa Morgan) taking prom pics… And for fans worried we don’t see a lot of the latter couple in the 60 second promo, there have been teases of interesting storylines for the two in the new season, including the long-awaited intro of Toni’s family.
Archie's Choice
After two scenes that seem to be a post-prom Archie watching a Voyeur video recreating the serial killer Black Hood’s attack on him in Pop’s from a few seasons back, we see Archie, sweaty, at a grave saying, “It doesn’t make any sense.” Though the context implies he’s talking about the video, I’d venture it’s more likely he is once again visiting the grave of his departed father Fred Andrews (Luke Perry) to try and figure out his feelings for Veronica and Betty.
Jellybean, You In Danger Gurl
Next up on the Voyeur knows when you’ve been sleeping list is Jellybean Jones (Trinity Likins). Though she’s been high on the suspect list for being part of the Voyeur mystery, her being delicately caressed with a large knife in her own bed seems to point the suspicion away from her. It also may indicate why FP Jones (Skeet Ulrich) wants to take his daughter and get the hell out of town in the season’s third episode (which used to be the Season 4 finale).
Betty's Got A Gun
Right before closing out the trailer with Veronica asking, “is everyone having a good time tonight?” In La Bonne Nuit, we see Betty in the Cooper/Jones/Smith house brandishing a firearm. Where did she get the gun, and who is stalking Betty this time? I guess we’ll find out on January 20, 2021…
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Professional opinions on Trump’s mental health are a bad idea
Posted byDoc Ayomide 27 July, 2017 9 August, 2020 Leave a comment on Professional opinions on Trump’s mental health are a bad idea
And I don’t even like Trump
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So yesterday, this happened.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/25/psychiatry-goldwater-rule-trump/
Yep. The American Psychoanalyst Association (APsA—not to be confused with the APA—American Psychiatric Association) yesterday relieved its members of what’s known as “the Goldwater rule” against making statements about the mental health of public figures.
I think that was a bad move.
You might ask as my people might: What’s your own, since you’re Nigerian? Well, for one, I was actually asked to comment.
https://twitter.com/iam_sola/status/889846577388507138
But also, let’s face it, it’s a smaller world than ever, and events and opinions anywhere, and especially in America, can affect events and opinions anywhere, for good or ill. I think it’s for ill in this case.
First off, though, what exactly is the Goldwater rule?
Named after Barry Goldwater, an American presidential candidate who had the misfortune to be declared mentally unfit via a poll of psychiatrists in 1964, the rule states that…
The publication that started it all. (Wikipedia)
Psychiatrists may share expertise about psychiatric issues in general but…it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion about an individual based on publicly available information without conducting an examination.
—Section 7.3, The Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry. Full document here (PDF).
I responded to the request to comment (see the first tweet in the thread below)—but I thought the whole thing was worth unpacking here.
So, would I offer a professional opinion on Trump?
I'd say no. Anyone, medical or not, can offer an opinion, but can one call it "professional" if it's not—you know—PROFESSIONALLY obtained? https://t.co/iMBNzqudMf
— Dọ́kítà Ayọ̀mídé ✊🏾 (@DocAyomide) July 25, 2017
And, believe me (as Trump would say), it’s not for any lack of appeal in the prospect of doing so. But that’s the thing: the fact that it’s so appealing is the more reason to take a closer look at it. After all, professionals should be driven by the helpfulness of things, not just their appeal, right?
So yes, it certainly is tempting to offer an opinion on Trump, and while we’re at it, on Nigerian politicians. But overall, it’s more harmful. To clarify why, allow me to back up and explain something about how medicine works.
The inescapable guesswork in medicine
See, there’s something about medicine, and what doctors do, that many people don’t fully grasp. It is this: making a diagnosis is basically making a very highly educated guess, which is very often spot on, but it’s still a guess. And before you go all, “I knew it! Doctors don’t know jack!” let’s be clear: it’s not a guess because a doctor is being careless. It’s a guess because the system of systems that is the human body and mind is so complex, not guessing is literally impossible (and also why computers haven’t replaced us yet). So don’t go all, “I know doctors don’t know jack,” just yet.
But that’s not all. You see, this complexity isn’t just in the symptoms you have and how the same sets of symptoms can often mimic absolutely diverse conditions. It’s also in how each patient reports those symptoms, depending on their educational level, social class or cultural background. Every doctor has had patients telling them about symptoms they knew but in ways the doctor didn’t recognise because of the person’s way of describing it! (And, oh yeah, it’s also why, as convenient as it is to Google your symptoms, it’s a far cry from actually seeing a doctor who’s trained to interpret them.)
Like I said, very complex.
Doctors are like detectives
Think of medicine as detective work, where health conditions are the crimes, and your body as the crime scene. You are the main witness, and the physical examination and lab investigations are all in search of clues.
But there’s one thing any good detective knows: you don’t name suspects as criminals without proper trial.
Well, in medicine, “proper trial” means the medical consultation. You know, where you and the doctor sit down and talk about what you’re feeling, and maybe poke around your body a bit, and take blood samples and all.
Yeah, that.
What’s all this detective stuff got to do with commenting on Trump?
You know that highly educated guesswork I spoke of? Well, to offer “diagnoses” or other kinds of “professional opinions” without consultation is to risk turning educated guesswork into just guesswork.
And this is in a world where it’s already typical for people to make pronouncements about their mental health all the time (I’m so OCD, I act so bipolar, I’m so depressed!, and such). We also very freely make declarations about the mental health of people we don’t like (he’s such a retard, she’s so schizophrenic, he’s insane), and of public figures (like, say, Kanye). But even setting aside the danger from normalising these “professional” opinions, dropping the Goldwater rule as an ethical guideline puts us all at risk of three great dangers.
Danger #1: Overconfidence
If public figure diagnosing becomes a thing, best believe the media will increasingly request it. In fact they already do, but to a limited degree. Removing the limits means you may expect full diagnoses, complete with predictions about outcomes and things. The present exception will become the future norm.
It’s not like we don’t talk about public diagnoses in private, but not with some sense that it’s all speculation. Put a media spotlight on that and you can be sure that sense will start to fade, because, human nature. And the reluctance to diagnose at a distance that every doctor learns early on will be replaced by a confidence in their ability to do so.
But remember we’re like detectives. A detective too eager to incarcerate suspects as criminals, without trial, is a potentially dangerous detective. (Except you’re Batman.)
Danger #2: Stigma
It’s bad enough how people just use one symptom to label people (including themselves): self-diagnosed “OCD”, “anxiety,” and such are everywhere, in our movies, music and real life. But lack of validity of these “diagnoses” aside, there is a more subtle danger: underlying them is the misconceived idea that psychiatric diagnoses are obvious, something anyone can identify with a bit of knowledge.
Think about it: how readily do people pronounce others to have physical health conditions? Not so much, because there’s a sense in which the average person understands that it’s not that easy. But perhaps because mental health problems often have behavioural components, there’s a sense of popular comfort with making them, and thereby labelling people.
Which is basically what stigma is all about.
But the behavioural components are exactly why this should be avoided, because behaviours in themselves are often nonspecific: they can be influenced by anything and mean anything.
So freely offering “professional” opinions will only reinforce an idea that any detective worth their salt knows and avoids: the idea that it’s okay to skip trial and just shoot suspects on sight based on what you “know.”
It’s not. (Unless, again, you’re Batman.)
Danger #3: Disrepute
Perhaps worst of all: this can only help discredit mental healthcare as a profession. Some historical context is necessary here. Psychiatry as a medical field is fairly new (dating only to about mid-19th century), whereas the history of stigma against mental illness is older than medicine itself. So it’s hardly surprising that the early days of the specialty were tragically marked by the use of psychiatrists to label people who were in disfavour with larger society or the ruling powers.
The labelling itself wasn’t new: what was new was the possibility of adding a professional veneer to it. And psychiatry is inherently prone to this kind of abuse by virtue of being the only specialty requiring involuntary admission of people. The line is thin, and we don’t need to blur it out any further. On top of that, all the work psychiatry has done to become more scientific has yet to grant it full recovery in the public eye from the stain of its shady history (more at Wikipedia’s political abuse of psychiatry article).
And we want to risk throwing all that away just because of Trump? Fine. Keep in mind, though: it might be Trump today.
But what if the tables turn tomorrow? What then?
For more on the APA’s decision to stand by the Goldwater Rule, and their well-thought through responses to the commonest objections, read this (PDF).
There’s a fourth danger, described well by Alysha Fung Koehler in a comment:
Posted byDoc Ayomide 27 July, 2017 9 August, 2020 Posted inMental illnessTags: Diagnosis, Medicine, Trump
Chester Bennington taught me to scream
I’m Christian and I don’t believe mental illness is “spiritual”
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Gibbstown LNG Project: Many Hurdles Remain
By Chris Mele | Jan 15, 2021
A planned project to transport liquid natural gas from a plant in Pennsylvania to a port in New Jersey still has to finish a Rubik’s Cube-like puzzle of regulatory, logistical and legal hurdles before becoming a reality. Pieces of the complex plan have so far gained approvals from at least 19 different local, state and…
27 miles to go: getting the last piece of the Delaware swimmable and fishable
By Meg McGuire | Jan 8, 2021
Of the 330 miles of the main stem Delaware River, only 27 miles aren't swimmable and fishable -- the designations used by the Clean Water Act as the national goal for all waters. But there's a plan afoot to find solutions.
DRBC’s Climate Change Committee weighs risks in the near- and far-term.
By Meg McGuire | Dec 18, 2020
A new DRBC climate change committee seeks to get the best-informed, most reliable data for the entire Delaware River watershed and work on local problems that sea-level rise is already creating, as well as discovering what the future holds.
Fears for safety and climate surround LNG export terminal planned on the Delaware
By Susan Phillips | Dec 10, 2020
Plans for a new half-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Delaware River in South Jersey were greenlighted by the Delaware River Basin Commission on Wednesday
LNG Gibbstown, N.J. Project Inching Through Permitting Process
By Roseanne Bottone | Dec 3, 2020
The controversial construction of a second dock at the Rapauno Port & Rail Terminal in Gibbstown, N.J. may be approved at the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC) fourth-quarter business meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.
Delaware Water Gap Rockfall Plan: It’s Local Officials vs. DOT
By Jane Primerano | Nov 9, 2020
One of I-80s most picturesque sites is the subject of a years-long argument between NJDOT, who say traffic on the road is endangered by falling rocks, and local officials who don't believe the NJDOT.
Grants plant the seed for projects to grow in the watershed
Conservation fund aids on-the-ground improvements
By Meg McGuire | Oct 30, 2020
The Musconetcong Watershed Association is building partnerships and projects with the help of the federally funded Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund.
Liquified natural gas project in Gibbstown panned as unsafe
By Roseanne Bottone | Oct 22, 2020
A contentious expansion of a dock in Gibbstown, N.J. that would encourage transportation of LNG from Pa, over road or rail to the site in NJ is awaiting a decision from the Delaware River Basin Commission.
DRBC continues to be underfunded in demanding times
The Delaware River's most significant regulatory agency, the Delaware River Basin Commission has, once again, only received about half of the money promised to it by the states and the federal government representative that created it in 1961.
Delgado: I still support a Delaware River Congressional Caucus
By Meg McGuire | Sep 28, 2020
Play Video The 8th Annual (Virtual) Delaware River Watershed Forum opened with a town hall-style meeting with U.S. Rep Antonio Delgado (NY-17). Friends of the Upper Delaware Executive Director Jeff Skelding hosted the meeting, and highlighted a question I’ve been asking for a while: What about a Delaware River Congressional Caucus?
Conference season is ZOOOMING upon us
By Meg McGuire | Sep 9, 2020
Fall is conference season in the Delaware watershed and they provide lots of ways to stay up-to-date with current research and projects, with a twist: Covid is making them all virtual so there are likely some you could attend without having the expense of overnight accommodation!
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Schools begin planning for a longer closure
Mar 23rd, 2020 · by Brooke Schultz · Comments: 0
As schools face long term closures in the wake of COVID-19, some are beginning to implement remote learning plans.
On Sunday, Gov. John Carney announced a stay-at-home order that would go into effect Tuesday at 8 a.m. through May 15, or until the crisis has subsided.
Schools were already slated to be out until March 27, but this new order means that schools could see a longer period of shutdown. Gov. Carney is expected to make an announcement about schools this week.
In a letter released to parents and staff on Monday, Cape Henlopen School District Superintendent Bob Fulton said plans were underway to get students set up for remote learning.
The district plans on sending out a telephone survey today at 6 p.m., to glean family’s access to technology.
Mr. Fulton urged families to answer the call and the two questions, as, he wrote, “this information is critical to planning for virtual learning.”
“Further, we are working hard to answer all of your questions and address your concerns,” he said. “We are awaiting guidance from state and federal officials on other items and we will update you at a later time.”
Appoquinimink School District posted a similar update, noting that they plan to launch remote learning on March 30, “pending approval from the Delaware Department of Education.”
“The president of the United States has ordered that federal testing be eliminated this year, but there are many local issues to resolve. Delaware’s top educators, school superintendents from around the state, will be in conference with the Governor’s Office late this afternoon (Monday) to try to get answers to the most pressing questions,” the letter reads.
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The Swiss Democracy Foundation (SDF) – in common with the simultaneously founded European Democracy Foundation – stands for greater participation of citizens in the political process, democracy, tolerance and international understanding. The Swiss Democracy Foundation is currently supporting projects and organisations in the fields of consultancy, education, development, media, research and networking at all political levels.
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Fox Says Bears Sticking With Glennon As Starting Quarterback
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By ANDREW SELIGMAN, AP Sports Writer
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Mike Glennon remains the Chicago Bears’ starting quarterback for now.
Coach John Fox says Glennon will start against the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend despite a rough outing at Tampa Bay that fueled more calls for No. 2 overall draft pick Mitchell Trubisky.
He says the Bears “still feel pretty good” with the fifth-year pro and insists the problems in Sunday’s 29-7 loss at Tampa Bay go beyond the quarterback.
Even so, Glennon flopped in his return to the city where he spent his first four years. Signed by Chicago in the offseason, he threw two interceptions with one getting returned for a touchdown. He also lost a fumble on a sack, leading to another TD for Tampa Bay.
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Don Bluth Wiki
Mrs. Brisby
Rock-a-Doodle
Anastasia (character)
Charlie B. Barkin
The Pebble and the Penguin
Burt R. Barkin
Grand Duke of Owls
Itchy Itchiford
Thumbelina (character)
Chanticleer
The Small One
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
Dragon's Lair
Space Ace
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
Antagonists, Rock-A-Doodle characters, Characters,
Minor Villains
American Characters
Reformed Characters
Child Abusers
Characters who go barefoot
Characters who fly
Secondary Antagonists
Villians who aren't revealed to be bad at first
Feature films Rock-A-Doodle
Park attractions
Animators John Pomeroy
Voice Charles Nelson Reilly
Performance model
Designer Don Bluth
Other names Nephew
Personality Bad, immature, silly, aggressive, goofy, clever, shrewd
Appearance Small and slender pygmy owl, grey and brown feathers, yellow feet, red helmet, amber eyes
Occupation The Grand Duke's nephew
Alignment Bad/Neutral, later good
Goal To kill Edmond and his friends (failed)
Home The Owls' Lair
Relatives Grand Duke of the Owls (uncle) His Mom (mentioned)
Allies The Grand Duke of Owls (formerly), Owl Minnions
Enemies Edmond, Patou, Snipes, Peepers, Chanticleer, Goldie Pheasant, The Grand Duke of Owls(at the end)
Likes Success, aggravation
Dislikes The lights, getting beat up, the Grand Duke yelling at him and turning him into various things
Powers and abilities Flight
Weapons Swiss army knife, switchblades
Fate He gets reformed when chases the miniature version of Grand Duke with a flyswatter.
Quote "Uncle Dukey! Uncle Dukey!"
"Total and complete-- Ho-ho!-- Annihilation!"
"Ah-ha! An 'adaquate' pipe!"
"Uncle Dukey?! (produces a flyswatter and chuckles) Come here."
"Here, kitty, kitty."
Hunch is the tertiary antagonist in Rock-A-Doodle. He was voiced by the late Charles Nelson Reilly.
1.1 Physical Appearance
2 Role in Film
2.1 Rock-a-Doodle
Hunch is the Grand Duke's pygmy nephew and lead henchman. Hunch enjoys rhyming words with "aggravation" and humming "The Ride of the Valkyries". He is bumbling and dim-witted, but extremely aggressive. He carries an all-purpose Swiss Army Knife in a lidless soda can strapped to his back and uses its various bladed objects, tools and household objects (like a flyswatter) as weapons. A small running gag in the movie was that whenever the Duke would breathe on him, his magic would transform Hunch into a randomly different creature. He also has a habit of calling the Duke "Uncle Dukey" despite the fact that the Duke hates the name and has warned him against it several times.
Role in Film
Hunch first appears onscreen when he literally drops in on his uncle, the Grand Duke, much to the latter's annoyance. The tiny owl reports that he saw Edmond and his friends riding on a drifting toybox in the river nearby. Pleased to hear the news, the Duke orders his nephew and four of his owl underlings to pursue the animals and kill them.
Hunch and his flock eventually catch up to the floating toy chest and swoop down to attack but, in the ensuing battle, are blinded by the flash of a camera at the hands of Peepers and Snipes, causing the owls to fly out of control and slam into a wall. They fail to reach the chest in time when a strong current pulls it into a sewage pipe leading to an aqueduct. Hunch, however, misreads a sign above the pipe saying "DANGER: AQUEDUCT PIPE", believing it to say "DANGER: ADAQUATE PIPE" and thus assuming his work was done and that the animals had drowned inside.
Hunch returns to his uncle's lair and reports to him that Edmond, Patou, Peepers, and Snipes were finally done away with, exciting the Duke into asking him how he did it. Hunch simply states that it was all done "adequately", which confuses his uncle at first, and he further specifies that he had let the animals get sucked the drainage pipe and mentions the "adequate pipe" sign above it. The Duke angrily yells at Hunch, correcting him that it was an aqueduct pipe that led to the city and that the animals were still alive. He then orders Hunch to fly alone to the city to dispose of Edmond and his friends once and for all (as his last chance upon threatening to dispose of him) and provides for him a pair of sunglasses to protect his eyes from the city's bright lights when the latter feared going blind.
The bumbling bird eventually arrives at the city and spots the animals below in front of the entrance of Chanticleer's studio. He swoops down behind them in an attempt to perform a sneak attack with the aid if his multipurpose Swiss-Army knife when he is suddenly interrupted by the entrance doors slamming on him, causing him to stumble into the path of a giant red carpet which soon rolls over him. From behind the doors emerge a group of frog bodyguards, their boss, Pinky, and his star attraction, Chanticleer. Edmond attempts to get to the famed rooster but fails as the bouncers drive the fans away from him to give him space. As a depressed Chanticleer boards onto Pinky's helicopter, a dazed Hunch emerges from underneath the red carpet.
Later, Hunch finds the gang tied up in Pinky's trailer (upon them having been discovered by the fat fox and his men) and breaks in through the roof entrance, comically injuring himself in the process. Regaining composure, the clumsy owl hops onto a television set and rears in on the gang to finally kill them, but his metal Swiss-Army tool makes physical contact with the TV's antennae, electrocuting him, causing him to frantically flail around the room and inadvertently set the animals free. Hunch then chases them around the room in his mad attempt to kill them when Chanticleer and Goldie, trying to escape Pinky and his goons, accidentally run into him, knocking the nocturnal nitwit into a fishbowl.
In the ensuing chase, as the animals take control of Pinky's Cadillac, they discover Hunch scaling the wall of the trailer and puncturing holes in the tires in an attempt to crash the vehicle. Peepers jumps down to detach the link connecting the car from the trailer to drive away Pinky's thugs, but Hunch swoops away just in time for the trailer to crash.
After Edmond, Chanticleer, and the others manage to escape Pinky via his helicopter, they fly straight to the farm to confront the Grand Duke and his owl henchmen. However, this is cut short when Hunch (somehow finding his way inside the helicopter) unexpectedly emerges from the helicopter's ventilation shafts and jumps in to attack the gang. Unfortunately for him, he lands in front of Goldie, who slaps him straight across the face (believing he was ogling at her breasts) and into a fire extinguisher. It suddenly fires its foamy substance and flies around the room, with Hunch clinging on for dear life, hitting buttons and switches, which forces the helicopter to spin out of control and crash.
After the Duke's defeat, Hunch is seen emerging from the wreckage of the helicopter and notices a tiny creature stumbling past him. He picks up the creature who reveals himself as "Uncle Dukey", much to Hunch's surprise. Then thinking back, now that he was much bigger than his uncle, Hunch chases and kills the Duke with a flyswatter as a means of revenge for all his abuse, both disappearing into the clouds.
Play uncle Dukie
Hunch is similar to Killer. Both are unintelligent and are often abused and mistreated by their bosses, often threatened with death and are both voiced by Charles Nelson Reiley. Unlike Hunch, however, Killer isn't related to Carface and is still left as a schnoodle, unlike Hunch who is often changed into various creatures. Also, Killer reforms and doesn't witness his boss' death while Hunch is able to get revenge on his uncle for all the abuse he endured. The biggest difference is that Hunch is more aggressive than the cowardly and neurotic Killer.
Hunch is the only owl to survive the film and remain his full size. The Duke survived as well but he was turned into a miniature version of himself The other owls either get killed by Chanticleer's crowing or scared away by the sun.
Hunch constantly gets hurt but quickly recovers he could have some magic from his Uncle allowing him to quickly revive or possibly just comic relief. He and four other owls also without explanation survived a flood after the camera flash.
While the other owls are blown away by a flashlight, Hunch is able to tolerate big city lights with the aid of sunglasses. It could be because the Grand Duke and the rest of the flock were put on a curse, being a younger owl, a different breed, or all or some of these.
He briefly mentions his mom, so it could be that the Duke is on Hunch's mother's side. It can be assumed that she died too since he states how he misses her (though not crying) or she left him, or he had to leave her, but most likely not leaving him as he missed her or she was at least less abusive.
Media: Rock-a-Doodle
Characters: Chanticleer | Edmond | Grand Duke of Owls | Patou | Goldie Pheasant | Snipes | Peepers | Hunch | Pinky | Stuey | Minny Rabbit | Max the Bodyguard | Owl Minions | Frog Bouncers
Songs: Sun Do Shine | We Hate the Sun | Rock-a-Doodle (song) | Treasure Hunting Fever | Kiss 'n Coo | The Owls Picnic | Tyin' Your Shoes
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Gary Burton: Works
May 22, 2020 May 25, 2020 | Tyran Grillo
Vibraphonist Gary Burton, one of the defining voices of ECM’s formative years, is worthily honored in this second “Works” series installment. His contributions as virtuoso and interpreter of the instrument are unparalleled, and on ECM both aspects of his career found ample space in which to flourish. This particular era of the 1970s, which followed his RCA blitz, showed him also to be a musician of great patience, as on The New Quartet. The 1973 classic dropped him into a studio with guitarist Mick Goodrick, bassist Abraham Laboriel, and drummer Harry Blazer for a set as gorgeously played as it was conceived. From it we are treated to Keith Jarrett’s “Coral,” of which every spindly leaf is accounted for, and Carla Bley’s “Olhos De Gato,” which waters a groove that is laid back but never subdued. Those chamber sensibilities give way to more luscious details in “Vox Humana,” another Bley tune that references 1976’s quintet outing, Dreams So Real.
While Burton was quick to expound at length on any given theme, he also gave his bandmates room to breathe. This was especially true of 1974’s Ring, for which the quintet was augmented by bassist Eberhard Weber. From that album we are afforded “Tunnel Of Love.” Burton’s pitch-bending adds a degree of physicality to this nostalgic slice of life by Michael Gibbs. The third of 1974’s Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra is another master class in delayed gratification and defers to the bassing of Steve Swallow.
The remainder of this compilation features the deeper integrations of Burton’s duo projects. His highest achievement in this regard, 1973’s Crystal Silence, pairs him with pianist Chick Corea. The track chosen to represent it, “Desert Air,” is a springboard for some of the most virtuosic finishing of sentences one is likely to encounter in such a collaboration. Another duo project with Ralph Towner, 1975’s Matchbook, yields the title track, in which percussive impulses from the guitarist clear the road for an unimpeded ride over flatlands. And on “Chelsea Bells” and “Domino Biscuit” (Hotel Hello, 1975), both by Swallow, the composer joins Burton on piano with touches both anthemic and gospel-esque. All of which leaves us with an abridged version of an oeuvre steeped in timeless energy. A gift that keeps on giving, decades later.
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Dredge Yard completed the assembly of ECO 200 electric hydraulic cutter suction dredger suction dredger for Canada.
The cutter dredger dredger is partly fabricated with Dredge Yard partners in Netherlands and the European Union.
https://dredgeyard.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2020-12-14-L-assembly-cutter-suction-dredger.mp4
ECO200 has a total installed power of 214 KW and is equipped with Dredge Yard heavy duty cutter head with replaceable cutter teeth, allowing the dredge cutter head to be efficient in all depths. The dredger has a discharge pipe of 200mm (8 inch) and two hydraulic driven Thrusters.
Dredge Yard is assembling, testing and commissioning its compact ECO dredgers from its facility in Rotterdam the Netherlands. in the near future several stock dredgers will be available for direct delivery.
December 14, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Dredge Yard delivers customized Electric Cutter Suction Dredger to Canada.
Dredge Yard has recently tested and delivered a customized electric cutter suction dredger ECO 200 for potassium chloride brine mining. The delivery is followed after successful water testing at Dredge Yard facility in The Netherlands and dismantled to be shipped in a flat rack and containers.
As common in mining industry, the dredger will be electrically powered from the grid and onboard installations on dredger will convert the electrical power to drive the dredge systems hydraulically.
Special attention and a lot of effort are spent on this special cutter suction dredger to make sure it is suitable for the harsh environment of potassium dredging. The potassium mine, with its high content of salt, provides a serious challenge for the materials used. A high grade of stainless steel was used with overall protection of seals and removable attachments like removable thrusters.
One of the major challenges was that the potassium cutter dredger had to have a dredging draft of 0.5 meters. The cutter suction dredger has to work in shallow waters and in narrow potassium chloride ponds. 3-wire positioning system is adapted by Dredge Yard to provide wider swinging of the dredger without spuds
ECO 200 Dredger is also equipped with Dredge monitoring system, Lightning arrest system, Fire annunciation and detection system, adding an extra mile to its sustainability and safety. To ensure the quality of the equipment, all components used in the dredger are approved by CSA (Canadian Standards Association). Moreover, most of the components have undergone sophisticated laboratory testing to ensure its compliance with CSA.
By the delivery of this dredger, Dredge Yard took one more step to reach the aim of delivering Zero emission, less noise and ECO-friendly dredgers that can work in environmentally sensitive areas.
Supply of dredger to Canada for Potassium mine
November 26, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Our cutter suction dredger ECO 300 was delivered to our client in Dubai in the last quarter of 2019. This dredger was specifically designed and customized for challenging projects involving hard soil.
Customized cutter dredger ECO 300 (Dubai, 2020)
Recently, we have received some updates on the project. The dredger ECO 300 is performing to the highest standards, despite rough, hard and rocky material to be dredged on project site. We are happy to see it!
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We are happy to help, so please feel free to contact us for advice, a quotation or further information by filling out the form below:
March 11, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Auger dredger ECO 200 is the only dredger in the market to feature fold-able pontoon (convertible) design. As illustrated below, the side pontoons fold upwards. Therefore, the usual breadth of the dredger (3.2m) is reduced to under 2.4m width when folded. This makes the dredger easy to transport, launch and store.
Dredging equipment transport
One of the challenges that clients face, is transporting their dredging equipment to project site. Dredging projects often take place away from ports and in remote locations that are difficult to reach. This makes large dredging equipment transport difficult and expensive. Therefore, the most significant advantage of our compact dredger design is easy transport. Auger dredger ECO 200 has been designed to fit in a single, standard 40 foot container, completely assembled. A standard container measures just 2.44m in width, 12.9m in length and 2.59m in height.
Additionally, compact design ensures that the dredger is easy to launch, operate, remove from water & store for later use. Due to simplicity of design, the need for trained teams to assemble and commission the dredger on site is eliminated. As a result, the user saves money and valuable time for their project.
Auger dredger ECO 200 features
Auger dredger ECO 200 is also equipped with simple and intuitive dredging controls. This is done to ensure that no extensive training is required prior to using the dredging equipment. If the user has prior dredging experience, often the ECO 200 dredger does not require any training at all.
Auger Dredger ECO 200, Hungary 2019
In addition to this, Auger ECO 200 features and underwater dredge pump, for higher efficiency dredging. The underwater dredge pump also allows for a standard dredging depth of 8m. This is the deepest dredging in the market for this dredger size.
Finally, Auger dredgers ECO 200 have low fuel consumption and low emissions. This results in low operating costs and environmentally sound dredging.
All of our dredgers can be customized for extraordinary applications. A common customization for the Auger dredger ECO 200 includes an Auger head with no cutting knives and wheels attached. This is commonly done in sensitive dredging applications, such as lined ponds. In this way, the lining is protected, when removing sediment.
In addition to this, Auger dredgers are an ideal tool for contaminant dredging. However, in some cases, this dredging application can be dangerous for anyone on board. For such applications, we offer to customize the dredger with remote controls. The dredger can also include both – remote controls, as well as a control cabin, in order to be suitable for a variety of dredging projects.
When dangerous contaminants need to be dredged, we also offer an environmentally friendly dredging solution – the Adaptive Auger Head. The Adaptive Auger Head protects the marine environment, causes minimal to no turbidity and is suitable for unmanned dredging.
Some of the other customization of Auger ECO 200 includes propulsion, increased dredging depth, additional power, and others.
Dredger applications
Due to compact dredger design, Auger ECO 200 is easy to transport, launch and store for later use. Therefore, it is ideal for small, reoccurring maintenance projects. It is also a low turbidity dredger, which is highly accurate.
As a result, this type of dredger is very efficient in environmental dredging. Furthermore, the Auger dredger is suitable for applications that require precise dredging. An example of this is water intake dredging, where lose sediments must be dredged in a precise manner. This is important to protect the infrastructure and the quality of water entering the plant.
February 27, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Dredge Yard continuously investigates and develops dredging equipment that is reliable, durable and eco-friendly. We strive to reduce environmental footprint and increase efficiency to achieve high quality equipment at the lowest cost for the client and the environment.
However, dredging operations can also be risky for people involved. This is especially true for dredger operators, service and maintenance employees. The risks are raised by a variety of factors. For example, exposure to rough weather conditions and heavy machinery.
Therefore, safety in dredging is extremely important. High safety standards, dedicated crew training and reliable equipment can ensure dredging safety for both – the environment and people involved.
What is safety in dredging?
When safety is discussed in the context of dredging, it can include multiple aspects. Namely, health and safety of people involved, dredger quality, and finally, protection of the environment. Fortunately, the importance of all safety aspects is receiving increasingly more attention in the dredging industry.
Currently, most dredging equipment is developed with safety and sustainability in mind. We have a vision of a dredging industry, which offers a healthy and accident-free work place. Therefore, we promote awareness and create possibilities for safer dredging work through our equipment.
Maintaining high safety standards and strict procedures on-board dredger vessels is vital. Whether it is during testing or dredging operation, safety procedures contribute to an accident-free workplace. There are safety measures in dredging, that have also become standard across many industries.
An example of this is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). PPE describes equipment such as high visibility vests, safety glasses, shoes and other work wear. While it is a simple principle, PPE has become a crucial part of safety at work. Its introduction led to an extensive decrease in accidents on work sites.
In addition to PPE, safety standards can be assessed through a variety of different codes and conventions such as International Organization for Standards (ISO), OHSAS or ISM.
Auger dredger in Turkmenistan. Crew wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) onboard
Compliance with safety standards has become a high priority for all those involved in the dredging industry. IADC knowledge centre provides a thorough insight and explanations about the different standardization codes and conventions.
A large part of safety standards must be followed and implemented during dredging operation itself. Yet, there are factors starting at dredger design, engineering and manufacturing, which can contribute to dredging operation safety as well.
At Dredge Yard “we want to involve our customers and suppliers in all our activities from the very early stage of the projects. We do this to ensure timely delivery, cost-effective production, low maintenance, low operation cost and high reliability of the products. Our customers are encouraged to witness any test in our production facilities.” (Basel Yousef, CEO, Dredge Yard).
Aside from the mentioned advantages, client involvement from the early stages allows our team to gain detailed insights to the client’s project. In this way, our team can identify and advice on project needs, that the client may not yet be aware of themselves.
As an example, this can include specialized safety features, such as an adaptive auger head design for environmental protection.
“Our customers are encouraged to witness any test in our production facilities”
Dredge Yard’s safety initiatives
In addition to close client involvement, we strive to contribute to safe dredger operations in a variety of ways, some of which are discussed below.
We follow strict ISO and ASTM standards, as well as execute a variety of dredging equipment quality tests in multiple iterations.
We manufacture small, economic dredgers. Therefore, most of our dredgers are easily transported in a single, standard 40 foot container or on a flatbed truck. In this case, no assembly is required. Our cutter dredgers can also be easily (dis)assembled in 3 parts through bolt connections. As a result, launching any one of our dredgers does not require any complex or potentially hazardous operations.
Our dredgers are easy to operate with joystick controls. Additionally, all information regarding dredging work is clearly displayed on a control panel. This means that the dredging operation is simple. Also, the operator is not required to leave the cabin, as he has a good overview of dredging activity at all times.
ECO dredger controls in control cabin
In addition to easy operation, our dredger cabins are equipped with all necessities to ensure the operator’s safety and comfort. As an example, it is mounted on vibration isolation pads and supplied with noise reduction, ventilation/heating, railings and more. Additional features can also be installed upon request.
Upon dredger purchase, we can provide on-site crew training on how to operate and maintain an ECO dredger. Training includes, but is not limited to: overseeing launch of the dredger; dredge operation and performance optimization training; dredger check-up & maintenance training. Since our dredgers are small and easy to operate, training is quick and efficient.
Our service team is always available to identify minor or major technical issues over the phone, by e-mail, or come directly to your project site if needed.
We are a flexible team, always able to adapt to your needs. Therefore, our dredgers can be supplied with any other additional safety features depending on your project conditions and requirements.
Finally, our team continuously works on developing new dredging solutions and components for improved safety. For example, our cutter head teeth are designed with bolt connection for safe and quick maintenance through hammer-less operation. Another example includes our dredge ball joints, which are designed with a gland (locking ring) for easy (dis)coupling of dredge pipes. By applying continuous improvements to our standard dredging equipment, we make sure that the dredger is efficient, safe and increasingly environmentally friendly.
Dredging for safety
While dredging involves certain risks, it is an important process, which can be used to ensure safety for the environment and people. For example, deepening of rivers and waterways is used as a form of flood control. Environmental dredging removes contaminated sediments in a controlled manner, to ensure safe water reserves and protection of natural habitats.
Achieving complete safety in the dredging industry requires constant development and innovation of new solutions. In order to encourage this, IADC created the IADC Safety Award. This initiative is used to raise safety awareness. At the same time, it rewards companies for their innovation and practices that contribute to safety in the dredging industry.
We are constantly in the development of new, safer dredging components and solutions to upgrade our standard dredger design. Follow our news page and social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to stay updated with our company news.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us by filling in the form below!
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Cutter Suction Dredger ECO 300 delivered to Sri Lanka
Dredge Yard and its sole agent in Sri Lanka have won an order for a standard Cutter Dredger ECO 300. The order was placed in the last quarter of 2019. Earlier this month, the dredger was delivered to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Our service team went to project site. They commissioned and tested the dredger to ensure optimal dredging performance.
CSD ECO 300 will be used for governmental projects by Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation (SLLDC). Dredge Yard’s standard ECO 300 model was supplied with additional features, according to the requirements of SLLDC. Read more about SLLDC dredging project here.
Are you in need of dredging equipment? Let us help you out!
February 3, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Dredge Ball Joints by Dredge Yard
Dredge Yard manufactures and supplies dredgers and dredging components. We have specialized in dredge ball joints since the introduction of Dredge Yard almost ten years ago. Back then, we introduced a new dredge ball joint design, which has been proven and trusted by clients all around the world.
Dredge ball joint casing in Dredge Yard facility
Our dredge component manufacturing process takes place in the Republic of Turkey. The process includes casting and heat treatment of all components, followed by machining to the finest tolerances. Finally, thorough testing takes place to ensure long component life. Take a look at our dredge ball joint specifications here!
Dredge ball joint testing
We always conduct heavy duty functional tests on all components, in order to ensure dredging equipment of the highest quality. One of such tests is called the dynamic dredge ball joint test. During the dynamic test, dredge ball joints are tested at a pressure, which is above the required design operating pressure. Additionally, while the ball joint is pressurized, a hydraulic cylinder applies a movement of the ball joint. This is done to simulate the working conditions in the dredge field at the most severe conditions. Severe conditions can include strong currents and waves, maximum dredge pipe length and highest pressure that the dredger can achieve. Therefore, the dynamic test is done to ensure component durability under all circumstances.
Dredge ball joint dynamic test
Over the years, Dredge Yard has made its name as one of the leading suppliers of dredge ball joints world wide. We have supplied dredge ball joints of varying sizes and quantities worldwide. One of our projects included the delivery of 50 dredge ball joints to the United Arab Emirates. These ball joints were suitable for a pipe with internal diameter of 750mm and discharge pressure of 30 bar. Therefore, during testing, these ball joints were pressurized to over 30 bar, in order to ensure that they can withstand maximum forces.
Dynamic test video
Take a look at a brief insights of our dredge ball joint dynamic test below:
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Following the thorough manufacturing, testing and delivery process, our service team will follow up with the client for continuous monitoring of dredger and component performance and provide support as necessary. Therefore, you can be sure to receive products and services of the highest quality.
What do others say about our dredge ball joints? Take a look at some articles by Dredging Today, International Dredging Review magazine or the Dutch Water Sector.
If you are interested and would like to know more, do not hesitate to contact us! We will get back to you within 24 hours.
January 6, 2020 /by Dredge Yard
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Dredge Yard highlights of 2019
As the year is coming to an end, we are looking over 2019 highlights at Dredge Yard. 2019 was a busy year – with new innovations taking shape, significant orders for dredging components and dredgers, as well as a big milestone – moving to new headquarters in Rotterdam with a whole new facility for building dredgers.
Dredger deliveries
Throughout 2019, we have been working on both – standard dredger deliveries, as well as highly customized, or completely newly designed dredgers for specific applications. Keep reading for a brief overview of our dredging equipment projects!
Auger Dredger ECO 200 to Hungary
In the first quarter of 2019, our Auger dredger ECO 200 from stock was ordered by a client in Hungary. We tested the dredger during multiple testing sessions, and organized an inspection with the Dutch company NBKB in order to receive a certificate of registration.
Since then, the dredger had already finished dredging a lake in Hungary and is going to be used on a new project within the country.
Electric driven cutter dredger for Canada
In the second quarter, Dredge Yard received an order for an electric driven cutter suction dredger for potash mining in Canada. This was a special project for Dredge Yard, as the CSD was completely newly designed and customized. The aim was to create an economically and environmentally responsible solution specifically tailored for this project.
Cutter suction dredger drawing – standard and customized
The dredger will be delivered in the first quarter of 2020. Learn more about our CSD for Canada here.
Standard Cutter dredger for Sri Lanka
Our standard Cutter Suction dredger ECO 300 was ordered for a very special, governmental project in the Beira lake, Sri Lanka. The Beira lake has become the center of Colombo’s residential, industrial, commercial, tourism and religious activities. Therefore, it is a vital water body. We were very proud to design and build a dredger that will help to improve the water quality and the surrounding environment.
Find more details about the Cutter dredger ECO 300 for Sri Lanka here.
Newly designed cutter dredger for hard soil dredging
Another dredger was specifically designed for our client CDC Dredging in Dubai. The dredger was customized in order to achieve compact design that is capable of dredging even the hardest soil. This was a challenging project due to a completely new dredger design under strict deadline of 3 months from order date to delivery. Some of the dredger customization includes increased dredging power, depth and a special cutter head. Learn more about the customized cutter dredger for Dubai here.
Customized cutter suction dredger ECO 300
Dredging components
Aside from customized and standard dredgers, we have also supplied a number of dredging components all around the world throughout 2019. Some of these include dredge valves for a capital dredging project, 50 dredge ball joints to the Middle East and dredge valves of 800mm internal diameter.
dredging components by dredge yard
During 2019, our team had also focused on new innovations. These include further development of the eco-friendly, Adaptive Auger Head, as well as newly designed foldable pontoon design on our Auger ECO 200.
Easy Transport
In the first quarter of 2019, Dredge Yard had introduced its new Auger ECO 200 easy for transport and mobilisation by using standard container dimensions and by using propulsion system.
Auger Dredger ECO 200 transport
Additionally, transporting a dredger completely assembled eliminates the need of a larger, trained team for dredger assembly and launch.
New Dredge Yard headquarters and facility
One of the most significant highlights for our team this year was moving to new headquarters and opening our own facility in Rotterdam. We have also expanded our team and already built our first dredgers here in the new facility.
Dredge Yard headquarters Rotterdam
The new year 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade. Accordingly, we have big plans for 2020 including further expansion of our team, many new projects and innovations to reveal!
Are you looking for dredging equipment for an upcoming dredging project? Get in touch with our team, and receive the best offer for our standard or customized dredgers.
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Electric Cutter Dredger for Canada
Dredge Yard has received an order for a customized Cutter Suction Dredger from Western Potash Corp. (WPC)- a development stage potash company based in Canada. The customized dredger will be used in WPC’s Milestone Potash Project for dredging potash.
WPC confirmed that Dredge Yard was chosen to deliver this dredger, because it has “both the industrial experience in potash and right equipment offerings, and during the entire negotiation process were very quick with communications and responsive to client requests.” (Dr. Matthew Wood, Vice President Technology, WPC).
Customized dredger design
When designing a dredger for WPC, special attention was paid to achieve a solution that would be as ecologically and economically responsible as possible. Therefore, this ECO dredger features customization to optimize its efficiency for this project. An example of this is its four electric motors. Each motor drives a different component, allowing for optimal power use and high efficiency dredging that doesn’t waste any power. This is an approach, which is advantageous for both – budget and the environment.
In addition to optimal efficiency, the electric motor drives are used instead of a diesel engine. As a result, air pollution and the risk of fuel spillage during operation is eliminated. An electric driven dredger is also much quieter than a diesel model. This reduces noise pollution in the surrounding environment. Finally, the electric motors are cleaner and easily maintained compared to combustion engines. All these factors contribute to an ecologically and socially responsible dredging approach.
As this dredger is intended solely for dredging potash, it was completely redesigned for optimal performance for this project. According to operations manager at Dredge Yard, Michel Debo, “no two dredging projects are the same. Customized solutions help to achieve the best dredging performance under the specific project conditions.”.
Customized cutter dredger technical drawing
Dr. Wood said that the customized dredger design was evaluated by WPC and SNC-Lavalin, concluding that:
“This model was the right balance of industrial quality, with an efficient CAPEX, low operating cost and good environmental credentials.”
The dredger is in the process of being built in Dredge Yard’s facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It will be tested and be delivered in early 2020.
About WPC Milestone Potash Project
The dredger will be used in WPC Milestone Potash Project Phase 1 Plant. More specifically, it will be placed in the Crystallization Pond (pictured below) and dredge potash from the pond. The dredged potash will then be sent for further processing, drying and compaction.
Crystallization pond, Western Potash Corp. photo
The environmentally conscious WPC Milestone Potash Project focuses on an innovative, horizontal mining method, which does not bring salt to the surface or produce a tailings pile. Additionally, this method reduces the amount of water in comparison to traditional solution mining, uses recycled water whenever possible, and strives to be as energy efficient as possible. Therefore, the ECO dredger is an ideal partner for this project.
Find our other dredging projects here, or get in touch to discuss your project!
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Cutter Suction Dredger ECO 300 for Sri Lanka
Rotterdam, Netherlands – Dredge Yard and its sole agent in Sri Lanka, Hoavel Holdings, have won an order for a standard Cutter Suction Dredger ECO 300. CSD ECO 300 will be used by Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation (SLLDC) for a governmental project of cleaning the Beira Lake in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Representative of Hovael Holdings confirmed that Dredge Yard was chosen to deliver this dredger, because “SLLDC tender technical specifications were successfully complied with the ECO 300”.
Dredging project
Beira Lake is a man-made shallow body of water located in the city centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Due to its central location, the Beira Lake has become vital for a variety of residential, industrial, commercial, tourism and religious activities.
Beira Lake, Colombo, Sri Lanka (photo by David Stanley)
Problem/case
Due to its central location and use for a range of activities, the Beira Lake also suffers from pollution. For example, the lake is exposed to hard detergents and pollutants from hotels and hospitals either directly or indirectly connected to the lake. In addition to this, in certain areas, the sewer lines are illegally connected to the storm water lines, which causes waste water to enter the lake.
According to SLLDC, waste water and pollutants accumulate over time, which has resulted in poor water quality for the last three decades. Water pollution negatively affects both – the surrounding environment, and the lake ecosystem. Representatives at SLLDC added that this is “especially relevant during the dry season, where lower fresh water in flux and higher temperatures cause increased bioactivity in the lake, resulting in algal blooms, fish kills and bad odour around the lake”.
Dredging areas in Beira Lake
The main purpose of Beira Lake dredging is to improve the water quality by removing accumulated waste water and pollutants. This will restore a healthy environment in and around the lake. In addition to this, the lake will also be deepened to improve access and navigation for boats, to maintain the efficiency of commercial activities.
“We are proud to provide a tool for the maintenance of such an important water body in Sri Lanka. Cutter dredger ECO 300 will help to improve the water quality and environment, as well as contribute to Sri Lanka’s successful commercial and industrial activities” says Basel Yousef, Chief Executive Officer, Dredge Yard.
Cutter Suction Dredger ECO 300 specifications and delivery
Dredge Yard’s standard Cutter Suction dredger ECO 300 model was supplied with additional features according to the requirements of SLLDC. Yet, the standard, shallow draft CSD ECO 300 model is an ideal tool for Beira Lake dredging, which has an average water depth of 2 meters. Furthermore, its compact design will allow easy transportation to the centre of Colombo.
Cutter Suction Dredger Features
The dredger will be assembled and tested in Dredge Yard facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In addition to the dredger, the order includes 15 saddle type hose floats and a 100 meter HDPE pipe. Finally, Dredge Yard will provide 10 days of training to three Hovael engineers in dredger ECO 300 assembly, operation and maintenance in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Interested in more information about this project or our equipment? Fill in the contact form and we will get in touch with you soon!
October 29, 2019 /by Dredge Yard
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A Woman Finds Herself Frozen out of the Office Spoils in Emmanuel Tenenbaum’s Uncomfortable Drama ‘Two Dollars’
A break from work can sometimes leave you disorientated on return as the flow of office politics and friendships continue on without you. In uncomfortable drama short Two Dollars (Deux Dollars) an exemplary employee returns to work only to discover that whilst things have changed for the better in her absence, she’s most definitely not invited to the party. The second film in Emmanuel Tenebaum’s trilogy of office shorts, DN spoke to the Montreal director about the advantages of making Two Dollars under strict time pressures and why you should never let excuses hold you back.
Hi Emmanuel and welcome to Directors Notes, as we haven’t spoken to you before could you tell us what inspired you to become a director and how you made the move from corporate to set life?
My background is indeed biomedical engineering and my first job was for Philips Healthcare in the Netherlands. I had attended an evening film school in Spain when I was a student and while at Philips I started to make little comedies about our workplace. Every time I did, the film would go viral within the company. That’s when I realized there was maybe a possibility to become a director. I found a lot of support from my colleagues and quitting my job was actually a pleasant experience.
Two Dollars was initially created within the 10 day time limit of Quebec’s Kinomada event, how did that restriction shape the approach you took to production? Did the limited time present any significant hurdles for you?
As you said the restrictions were major: we had to find ANY suitable place in 2 days, and we didn’t know any actors. To be frank, we weren’t even sure the film could have a life after the Kinomada screening. So we had to let go and accept that maybe it was a one time gig. But to be frank, that’s also the magic of deadlines: if we had had more time, I would have become picky and said no to so many things, the film might maybe not have existed. I’m very happy it went that way eventually.
Regarding time, I’m still shocked to see how much you can achieve when you’re on a deadline. For the editing, I sat straight for 36 hours! My friends had to keep me awake at any cost. Just like the production, when you have no choice, you end up getting things done.
Given the static nature of the table meeting scenario how did you approach the cinematography and later construction of the film’s visual rhythm?
It’s interesting you mention this because I think it’s the weak side of the film. Not because of the cinematographer of course, but simply because we had less than a day to shoot the whole film when it should have required 2 or 3 days. So the result is quite simple, fixed camera facing one or two actors, film their dialogue, move on. One thing we did carefully was to respect the axis because if you have ever tried to film a 5 people conversation you’ll know how messy it can get.
The rhythm, however, is in the script. Guillaume Fournier the scriptwriter wrote excellent dialogue, perfectly adjusted, and we didn’t remove one word of the script in the edit. Of course, as a director you need to direct the ’emotional waves’, but again, it was very easy with such a good script. For the same reason, the editing was not too problematic either.
We too hide often behind the excuse of lack of budget or lack of time.
That initial version of the film had a shorter running time than this final version. What prompted the expanded duration and how do you feel this version improves on what came before?
Well, first of all, we have end credits now, haha! Joke aside, as you can imagine, after 36 hours of editing with no sleep, the final result looked more like a 1st cut than a film. So once we had more time, we could give more space for the silences, which are actually my preferred moments of acting in this film. The improvement is incomparable, I wouldn’t dare to show you the 1st version. The other factor is that we reshot the first scene after the French producer stepped in: In the first version, it wasn’t good enough so it was almost entirely cut out.
Are there any lessons from making this film at such a brisk pace which you’ll take forward to future projects?
Yes, generally, I think that attending those Kinomada events has made me a lot more flexible as a director. We too hide often behind the excuse of lack of budget or lack of time but if you commit to a deadline and have some friends to help out, you can make wonders.
Two Dollars marks the midpoint in your short film trilogy of “real life stories at the office”, any chance of a clue about the focus of the final film and when we’ll get to see it? Are there any other projects on the horizon?
All I can say is that it involves the board of a large multinational 🙂 But before we do the last chapter, we are indeed in pre-production for a 20min drama about bankers, inspired by Swimming with Sharks, the fantastic book by Joris Luyendijk. We aim to premiere it early next year.
Two Dollars is one of the many great projects shared with the Directors Notes Programmers through our submissions process. If you’d like to join them submit your film.
Canada, Drama, Emmanuel Tenenbaum, Short Film
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17th Mar 2007, 05:47pm
Please post your memories of this Glasgow district here...Kinning Park
Were you born here? Did you grow up here?
Did you visit your aunt here? ...or your children?
Was your first home here? Were your children born here?
Did you shop here? Was your favourite cinema here?
Did you go to church here? Was your favourite pub here?
Did you 'romance' here? Did you go to school here?
Do you have a photograph from here?
Come on let us know and immortalise your memories here...Kinning Park
I lived at 212 Seaward street 1968 - early 70s, I have great memories of that time, 'wee' mary's shop, the hub of the street. I went to Our Lady & St Margarets School, had a girlfriend called Rosemary whom I still have fond memories of.
I have tried to locate anyone from Seawaed Street (top end opposite the whisky bond, as it was then.) It seems like everyone from that era never existed, ive not been able to find anyone, but what a great and unforgettable part of my life, Kinning park ... brilliant!
24th Apr 2008, 09:19am
I remember Seward St although I lived on Mclellan St. I went to the Mags primary.Left in '59/60. Had a pal from Seward St. called Chuck Ripley.
ninab
23rd Jun 2009, 02:20pm
QUOTE (Tommy D @ 24th Apr 2008, 09:36am)
My ex-husband and his family all lived at 84 McClellan Street. Ringland McRoberts....Did you know him or his brother Alex?
28th Sep 2009, 09:54pm
Lived at 7 Sleads street KP and went to Lambhill street school ,would like to contace people who lived In Sleads Street
*Steve*
14th Oct 2009, 12:28pm
Best of luck Rob hope you find someone from Slead Street? I havent managed to find anyone from Seaward Street ....yet!
QUOTE (Robert Brown @ 28th Sep 2009, 10:53pm)
Hi Rob best of luck in finding anyone that lived in Sleads Street, I lived in Seaward Street opposite the bondie (late 1960) and have not managed to contact anyone I knew, I don't know if "Wee Mary's shop was there when you lived in Sleads Street, the hub of the street.
glezgaman
i was born in 1936 at 81 plantation st 1up above (The Cock O The North) pub on the corner of Craigiehall st. a couple of other family's at 81 were Archie & Kitty McDowall and family and the Hunters. My uncle Sammy married Gina Mills and lived at 24 Plantation st. My aunty Mary&uncle Bobby Craig lived at 41 Blackburn st. also my uncle George & aunty Gracie davidson lived at the Paisley rd West end of Maclean st. not forgetting my cousins the McAlpines at 94 Plantation st
Hughie Gourlay
Gallusbisom
I lived at 248 The Paisley Rd. and my G'parents lived at 66 the Paisley Rd. W. I had aunts and uncles living in Plantation St., McLellan St. Howwood (?) St. Snowden St. etc. Cousins went to Lambhill St., now turned into flats I believe) I went to Scotland St., only saved by being turned into a Museum. I lot of my Mum and Dad's older relatives stayed in and all around the area.
Some of the names that may ring sound familiar: Barbour, Kelt, Musgrove, Currie, Carlton, Bannerman,Hughes, Rennie, Thompson and many more.
Alex MacPhee
Oh my word, Kinning Park, what a lot of street names coming back on reading these posts!
I always loved the name 'Kinning Park'. It meant 'home', and where my mum and dad brought up five children in a room and kitchen. When I was born, in 1950, my parents lived at 15 Blackburn Street, and not long after, they moved to a room and kitchen in 19 Blackburn Street. It was the close next to a wee shop run by a lady called Chrissie O'Donnell or McDonald or something like that, along with her daughter Jenny Crawford. Across the road, there was a grocer's shop, run by Mrs Annie Aird. At the corner of Blackburn St and the Govan Road, there was a shop called the Yankee Magazine Shop.
My aunt and uncle (my mum and her sister had married two brothers) lived in McLean St, and my paternal grandfather lived in Craigiehall St. My maternal grandmother, Maggie Lindsay, lived at 69 Paisley Road West, next door to 'Curleys', a food shop, where I remember queuing up and getting butter loose by the half pound from big barrels, patted into shape by the shop assistant, and wrapped in greaseproof paper. That was a special treat, for in those days, all we could afford was margarine (funny how they never call it margarine these days, it's 'spread').
I went to school at Our Lady & St Margaret's, in Stanley street, in what were called the 'huts', which were a kind of annex to the main school. My happiest schooldays were in that wee school, with a succession of lovely teachers, flowers of Scottish spinsterhood - for they were mostly spinsters dedicated to their children. My favourite of all was Miss McGuinness, and I still remember her kindly face and silvery hair.
Our family left Kinning Park in 1957 for the newer post-war housing estates springing up in places like Pollok. But strangely, my heart was always somewhere in Kinning Park, SW1. A few years ago, on returning to Glasgow, I went there to see the streets I grew up in, and the wee school where my education started. Things have to change, I know, but how sad that it was all gone. The site of the wee school had been razed, and where in my memory I was looking through the school gates and seeing scores of bairns in short trousers running and turning and birling and swinging and playing at being Spitfires shooting down the Jerries, there was nothing but wee houses. It's irrational, I know, but I felt a kind of sadness that part of my history had been bulldozed into oblivion.
I have no photographs from that time. And if any others who have history in Kinning Park have any pictures of the streets from that time, it would be wonderful to see them.
if you go to Virtual Mitchell and do a search you'll come up with 76 photos of Kinning Park - many will be way before your time, but up to the 50s and 60s I bet some of the old buildings, and certainly the streets will still be the same. You'll find as you go through that there are pictures from 1900 mixed in with those of 1964 or 1970 etc., no definite order.
If you just keep clicking 'next' you'll get up to 1964 and beyond.
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitc...iO30=&pg=27
I also found 2 or 3 of your old school.
Alex, I may have a couple of old pictures of the plots behind McLellan St., (you can just make out the wee swing park that was there in one but the other is of a cousin with the family dog and not very focused. I will see if I can locate them but it will take a wee while. I will also ask my cousin, if she has any. She was just a few years younger than my Mum and sort of inherited all the old pics. But she also stayed in McLellan St., although her married name was Anderson. My g'aunt Helen (Nellie) stayed down near the bottom end, first floor. She was the one that walked to McLellan St. the night of the Clydebank blitz. Other names I remember from around there are, Hughes, Heart,Sinclair, McKay, Skinner, Bilsland. My, the more you think, the more you remember. I also have an old picture of our class at Scotland St. with a lot of names on it, will try and dig that out too. Have to dig into the family tree and I haven't done that for a while. Do you remember the lady who had the dairy, I think on the south side of The Paisley Rd. W just past 66 who used to give Xmas parties at her house, which was across the street and a wee bit further up. The picture halls were numerous, with the Lorne, Capital, Corky, Mosspark, Aldwich and Westway all coming to mind. We used to walk from the Paisley Rd. as far as the Aldwich and Westway on fine Saturday afternoons. There used to be a great little bakery on the same street as the Cessnock subway but you had to cross the Paisley Rd. to get to it. By the way, just a wee family note, my Uncle John spent nearly all his demob money in the little cafe just to the right, as you came out of the close at 66, well at least, that it the family story. Well he also bought a juke box! By the way another name is Agnes McLean, I did not know her but her Mum was a great friend of my Gran's.
tradeston lassie
Hi Gallusbisom, I was interested in your names, I am researching my husbands family tree, and he has Musgroves, and Barbours, in his tree, his gggrandmother was a Catherine McGinnis wo had a daughter Isabella who married a William Musgrove, would this be connected to you, would love to hear from you, I am a Tradeston lassie myself, but he his frojm govan
23rd Mar 2010, 10:45am
I was looking for old photos of Kinning Park when I stumbled on this website. Just like Gallusbisom, my granny also lived at 66 Paisley Rd West and all six members of my family were born there...before,like Alex McPhee, we were all farmed out to Pollok. I have very clear memories of the place...my granny's name was McLellan and her next door neighbour was Mrs Stirling. They were great pals ..Mrs Stirling was in The Orange Order and my granny was a devout Catholic...but every year we all, granny included,hung out the window at 66 to wave to Mrs Stirling when "The Walk" came past. We were on the top floor and I think the Hislpos were there...and I remember Susan and Bill McDonald who had a daughter Aileen and a son Iain (he had Cerebral Palsy}lived on the ground floor at the entrance to the close. The Crescent Bar was next door (on the corner of Rutland Crescent). I also remember Curleys (oddly enough for exactly the same reasons as Alex McPhee) as well as The Criterion Cafe up near The Toll and Galls the haberdashery shop....as well as The Gaumont ? or was it The Odeon that later became The Irish Club for a while....The Old Toll Bar, Woolies,The Clachan....boy are the memories coming back now !
I haven't been in Glasgow for 32 years so maybe some of the places are still there. Will be back in August...but I don't suppose I will recognise much of it.
I would love to see any photos that anyone has of the area (I know about Mitchell site) When I was there in '78 I was determined to get a photo of 66 before they pulled it down....but never managed it...hence my search.....progress is diabolical intit !
FAO eieio
Saw that you were looking for old photos of KP, ive just found what looks to be a good site, in the process of going through it myself ... "urbanglasgow.co.uk"(various interesting links to other sites).
Noticed a few good photos of KP, theres a good one of Admiral Street (circa 1973) you can clearly see Jim Baxters pub, I worked in the butchers shop that was there, "Robert Edwards" the newsagents shop that was next to the butchers shop was owned Robert Edwards brother, you can see the two steps you had to climb to enter the shop, not sure when these shops closed but it was a crackin place to work and live, I lived in Seaward Street, hope this is useful to you.
forgot to mention......
Theres some gr8 photos of the Gorbals/govanhill and various other areas either on or using links from urbanglasgow.co.uk... happy hunting!
26th Mar 2010, 01:49am
The Urban Govanhill site was great....I managed to find a few photos of the bottom of Rutland Crescent and you can just see my granny's window in the corner ! Thanks for that.
glad u liked the site, goin through the site theres lots of links to all sorts of areas as I am finding out.
mrssnuffy
14th May 2010, 01:38pm
Hi Steve. Can you tell me exactly where on "urbanglasgow" you found the photo of Admiral St. Thanks
FAO mrssnuffy
To find Admiral Street/Paisley Road West
1 enter the urbanglasgow.co.uk site
2 click the search tab(top of page on the right.... ish?)
3 type in fergie's bar(make sure you click the "search in urbanglasgow" and not the web)
4 scroll down to "Glasgow In The 1970s-Tradeston to Govan" click link.
5 enjoy streapadairs photos as you scroll down to Paisley Road West/Admiral Street......
There is another KP site on 11 Stanley Place where a few ex pats have been posting looking for relatives/friends etc......
Mrs Snuffy here. Many thanks for info. Found Admiral Street but not the side I wanted. Lived above the Old Toll Bar with my grandparents in the dark ages!!
21st May 2010, 09:28am
Have you seen this one mrssnuffy:
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitc...amp;t=4&x=1
21st May 2010, 01:01pm
Great pic. A bit before my time but still brings back happy memories. Thanks.
4th Oct 2010, 10:47pm
I was born in Kelvingrove, then spent my first two years in Aberdeenshire before coming to live with my grandparents Annie and Hugh Duncan a 9 McLean St. there was a family called Bell in our close who had a daughter called Rena. Also remember Margaret McGowan who lived a up next close.
Big John Waugh who worked on the docks lived in our close with his lovely wife Betty who I called 'Auntie' as that was the way then.
I went to Lorne St., School and my teacher was Miss Ralston who was great. But every day Rena Bell and Margaret McGowan after school would bully me all the way home, even though I knew they would be waiting for me I still went to school as I loved it so much. I think being an only child had something to do with it.
Later moved to the Gorbals after my grandparents died.
23rd Nov 2010, 01:47am
I am researching my family tree at the moment and came across this site for Kinning Park. All of my dad's side came from KP. His name was Michael (known as Mick) McCall. They stayed at Blackburn St, Plantation St, Paisley Rd West. He had sisters Isa, Betty, Ellen and brothers Willie and John. I believe my granny Elizabeth (Lizzy) McCall had a shop on Plantation St but don't know if this is true. Would like to hear from anyone who remembers them?
sensibleshoes
29th Dec 2010, 05:41pm
QUOTE (Steve Brown @ 29th Mar 2008, 09:51pm)
I knew Brown's from Seaward St. They lived in my Aunts building. There were LOTS of boys and 3 wee girls.
Kenny Hill
16th Feb 2011, 05:16pm
I lived at number 20 Sleads Street (in the close) I lived there from 1957 (when I was 1 year-old) until we got moved because they were demolishing the building, I think that was when I was about 11 or 12. Next door neighbour was Mrs McCulloch who worked in Gray Dunn as did my mother, and Mrs Thompson (everyone called her 'auld granny Thompson' ).....Her grandkids lived with her....The Sweeny's....John Sweeny, I remember the most.
I remember the Arnotts who lived across the road at 17 (I think) I played football with Ian and he had an older brother Walter. There was also the Steele's and the frazers who stayed at number 21. I remember Archie Steele and his cousin Davy Fraser. We all used to play football in the street using the 'milky' garage door as a goal for three and in. We also used to climb the fence at Jedd Brothers paper work and play among the bales of waste magazines and newspapers.....(some nice magazines in there by the way.....heheh )
I remember a John McMillan who lived next close at number 18 and a Jim Meechan who's father was blind who lived in the close at number 22.
I remember we used to have some great games of football playing against the boys from Stanley Street....We used to play those games on vermont street using the street lamp posts on opposite sides of the street as the goal posts.
Happy days indeed.
wheeghee
Anyone drink in the Red Lion Paisley Road Weat
25th Jul 2011, 09:22pm
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MrsSnuffy Admiral Street showing the "The Old Toll Bar" not sure of the year though?
That looks fairly recent.
Perhaps too late for MrsSnuffy now, but this image shows the view from Admiral Street:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Admiral+Stre...cbp=12,315,,0,0
27th Jul 2011, 05:37am
Alex MacPhee,
You wrote long ago, but in researching my family I cannot believe the coincidence.
My Grandfathers family live at 19 Blackburn Street in Govan since the late 1800's to the mid 40's.
My great grandmother was Sarah Young. My grandfather was Mungo McAllister. I believe there was a Hettie, Katie, Sadie, Georgie, Jimmy, Archie and Alec. My grandfather moved to Canada with my mom and aunt and Nana in the mid 50's and we have lost a large majority of oor tree. DO you happen to have a pic of 19 Blackburn.
If anyone else know the family, we are looking to piece a few things together,
1st Aug 2011, 06:55pm
yingying
11th Sep 2011, 02:22am
i was born in the suffering general in govan i grew up in MIDDLESEX STREET right beside the nut and bolt factory i cant remember the number i lived beside the YOUNGERS & the McINTYRES we lived across the road from wee TOMMY & JOHN CRAIG both of them played football professionaly tommy was a great wee player so was john we used to play in the adventure playground it was at the scotland st end an old piece of ground with an old bus in it we spent hours in it every dayi went to the wee maggies we had an outside toilet if you went to the toilet at night time you would kick the door to scare away any rats and hold the door shut with an old piece of string so nobody could pull the door open we flitted to avon street in tradeston MANAGOBBY it had an inside toilet modern living at last we had nothing but they were great times GOODNIGHT may your god bless you a KPnut
QUOTE (Beth Wilson @ 27th Jul 2011, 07:23am)
I don't know if you're still registered, and can see this, but I've only just noticed your post, as I've not been able to log in to this forum for some time.
Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of 19 Blackburn St, or Blackburn St at all. I've been searching for a long time, but with no success yet.
I can't remember all the names in number 19, but I do remember the names Boyd, Friel, Crawford, and Brown, if that's of any help.
Am I glad to see you back, Alex.
Gonnae no' stay away so long, please.
to tradeston lassie i seen you were wondering where the cunyon was you would walk up past the maxwell park and just before you came to the pollok estate park the cunyon was on the right hand side of the road it was an amazing place to play at there were 7 hills some small some large it was great riding over them on your bike there was also a large flooded part where we would make rafts out of old doors or large lumps of a cork type of material that was dumped there it was better than going to the boring makie park i have some wonderful memories of playing there as a young boy yours truely joe dyer a tradeston boy
stratson
QUOTE (Gallusbisom @ 16th Nov 2009, 05:59pm)
Hi G.B. just reading K.P. posts. The Bannerman family are my relatives. Their mother was sister of my mother.
Castlegirl
I'm a highly experienced novice so don't know if this will reach Steve Brown's post. Did you have lots of brothers and I think 3 wee sisters? And Andy Hamilton did you go out with one of the Campbell girls? I think her name was Linda. If you're the very same Andy you had a moped bike? If you're not the same Andy sorry for my mistakes.
I was told an old cine film exists of K P, but I don't know if it's true and I've never come across it . Apparently an old resident took the film from around the early 50's to K P's demise. If anyone has heard of this film or could pass on a copy I'd be very grateful as I've not been able to find it.
I lived at Paisley Rd Toll, was the Barbour you mentioned a lad called Graham from Plantation St. Also you mentioned Currie was that Willie Currie who went to Lorne St and Lambhill St.schools.
alexander3544@hotmail.com
rumcdonald
QUOTE (*Steve* @ 24th Mar 2010, 12:04pm)
I've tried for years to find old pics of Mair St Plantation, where my husband was born..in the Thomson household. I've found Zilch!! Also trying to find an old pic of St Margarets Chapel on Stanley St. I've googled the street, but am not sure what I'm seeing. What is the smaller bldg beside the school..the one that's half demolished? Is St Margarets chapel gone??
To think I use to work in Gray Dunns in the mid 60's...wish I'd taken a few snaps then!!! Ruth
24th Jan 2012, 02:32am
All Kinning Parkers,
Just been round the place, sad to see all the places that have been destroyed with the M8 but the old Kinning Park is still there.... long may it be so....
My great grandmother was Sarah Young. My grandfather was Mungo McAllister.
As a slight follow-up to this -- even if Beth is not reading this board any longer -- I had a delightful lady called Mags contact me here recently about 19 Blackburn Street. Although it turned out we're not related, despite overlapping family names, I'd occasion to refer to the old 1914 Valuation Rolls to see who lived at this address around that time, and one of the tenants was an Archibald McAllister, listed as a boiler cleaner by trade. Not sure, obviously, what the relationship is here to Mungo McAllister, but it might be of interest to Beth.
Michael Connolly
7th Feb 2012, 11:37pm
I came across this great site when looking up Our Lady & St Margarets Church. My father went to the primary school not long after it opened. His family lived at 78 McClellan Street at that time. His mother died while they were living there and is buried in Lamb Hill Cemetery. He left Glasgow in the late 1920's and never got back until the mid 1970's. Pop and his mates would go to the Clutha Ironworks and aggravate the workers until they were chased away. Click to view attachment
cazroline haughian
Hello i was born in 103 mc leans streetcan anyone remember the white rabbit under the grates
Billbhein
23rd Apr 2012, 01:27am
QUOTE (*Steve* @ 14th Oct 2009, 12:33pm)
My name is Bill Christie and I was born at 224 Seaward Street, right opposite the Slater & Rogers Whisky Bond in 1958, and we stayed there right through the sixties until we moved to Penilee. I remember Wee Mary's Shop, and playing Rounders in the street, and the time the ball shot straight through the Shop window! We seemed to have a great time playing out most of the time, Jumping the Dykes, Kick the Can, Marbles, Carting, Football, and many more games. I certainly remember the Campbell's, the youngest sister was Mary, we were around the same age, she was the first girl I kissed, although I think she made it easy for me, we were playing Chases, and I managed to catch her three times at the very same spot on the street, and was rewarded with a kiss each time. I remember looking up and there was an auld granny hanging out the window above, laughing her head off!
From my grannies house on the top landing I was allowed to sit on the window ledge and watch the steam trains going into the back of the Whisky Bond. The bond also had the big Dray Horses pulling the Waggons loaded with Johnnie Walker Barrels.
West Yorshire
2nd May 2012, 01:54am
I think you lived in Seaward Street and left before I got there? I lived at 212 Seaward Street circa 1968 on.... I think you must have known a few of the people I knew....McCrae family..McCluskeys..Pattersons...I stayed top floor of 212 and If my memory serves me right Linda Campbell lived on the ground floor? And who could forget wee Mary's? ...
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Cooking fuel choices and garbage burning practices as determinants of birth weight: a cross-sectional study in Accra, Ghana
Adeladza K Amegah1,2,3,
Jouni JK Jaakkola2,
Reginald Quansah2,
Gameli K Norgbe3 &
Mawuli Dzodzomenyo4
Environmental Health volume 11, Article number: 78 (2012) Cite this article
Effect of indoor air pollution (IAP) on birth weight remains largely unexplored but yet purported as the most important environmental exposure for pregnant women in developing countries due to the effects of second-hand smoke. We investigated the associations between the determinants of indoor air quality in households and birth weight.
A cross-sectional study of 592 mothers and their newborns using postnatal services at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital located in Accra, Ghana was conducted in 2010 to collect information on characteristics of indoor environment and other potential determinants of fetal growth. Birth weight was recorded from hospital records.
Household cooking fuel choices and garbage burning practices were determinants of birth weight. Multivariate linear regression analysis adjusting for age, social class, marital status and gravidity of mothers, and sex of neonate resulted in a 243g (95% CI: 496, 11) and 178g (95% CI: 421, 65) reduction in birth weight for use of charcoal, and garbage burning respectively compared with use of LPG only. The estimated reductions in birth weight was not statistically significant. Applying the ordinal scale exposure parameter nonetheless revealed a significant exposure-response relationship between maternal exposures from charcoal use and garbage burning, and birth weight. Generalized linear models adjusting for confounders resulted in a 41% (risk ratio [RR] = 1.41; 95% CI: 0.62, 3.23) and 195% (RR=2.95; 95% CI: 1.10, 7.92) increase in the risk of low birth weight (LBW) for use of charcoal, and garbage burning respectively compared with use of LPG only. A combination of charcoal use and household garbage burning during pregnancy on fetal growth resulted in a 429g (95% CI: 259, 599) reduction in birth weight and 316% (RR=4.16; 95% CI: 2.02, 8.59) excess risk of LBW. Sensitivity analysis performed by restricting the analysis to term births produced similar results.
Maternal use of charcoal as a cooking fuel during pregnancy and burning of garbage at home are strong determinants of average fetal growth and risk of LBW. Efforts to reduce maternal exposures to IAP are thus important to improve birth outcomes.
Birth weight is an important determinant and predictor of neonatal and infantile growth and survival, as well as health in childhood and later life. Low birth weight (LBW), defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as birth weight less than 2500 grams[1] is closely associated with neonatal and infant mortality and morbidity, reduced growth, impaired immune function and poor cognitive development[2]. LBW has also been associated with childhood and adult disorders such as asthma[3], type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart disease in many studies[4, 5].
Birth weight is determined by multiple factors with Sohl and Moore[6] estimating heredity and environmental factors to account for 40% and 60% of birth weight respectively. Stephenson and Symonds[7] have also suggested that about 60% of the variation in birth weight can be explained by environmental factors. Environmental factors are therefore clearly important determinants of birth weight. Spencer and Logan[8] note that secular changes in birth weight, birth weight variations within genetically similar populations, and birth weight depiction of a reverse social gradient such that increasing disadvantage is associated with decreasing birth weight all suggest an environmental influence.
The maternal household environment has been proposed to have a strong influence on birth weight. Stephenson and Symonds[7] identified the general and immediate maternal environment to account for almost 40% of the variation in birth weight attributable to environmental factors. Cooking fuels such as charcoal and wood, and garbage burning are important sources of indoor air pollution in maternal households with poor ventilation of homes often worsening indoor air pollution. The relationship between indoor air pollution (IAP) and birth weight remains largely unexplored with studies in Guatemala[9, 10], Zimbabwe[11], Pakistan[12] and India[13, 14] that reported association of biomass fuel use with reduced and low birth weight identified to be the only studies to have examined this relationship.
The apparent lack of research on the link between indoor air pollution and birth weight is totally at variance with the widespread projection of indoor air pollution as the most important environmental exposure for pregnant women especially in developing countries due to the effects of second-hand smoke. It is against this background that our objective was to study the associations between the determinants of indoor air quality such as cooking fuel choices, cooking sequence and patterns, and household garbage burning practices, and birth weight in Accra households.
Study design and site
A cross-sectional study was conducted among mothers and newborns of the Maternity Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). KBTH is located in the south-western part of Accra and serves as the national referral centre for southern Ghana. The catchment area of KBTH's Maternity Department are communities in the south-western corridor of Accra. The comprehensive and specialist services on offer at KBTH as a whole sees majority of mothers residing in the south-western part of Accra preferring this facility to others in the area that equally provides Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services. Mothers from other parts of Accra and surrounding areas also access RCH services at KBTH for the very same reason or because they have been referred for an underlying health risk.
Study population and sampling procedure
The source population comprised all nursing mothers residing in Accra. Six hundred and forty seven mothers that had singleton deliveries with no gross anatomical deformities at KBTH Maternity Department and accessing postnatal services at the same facility were randomly sampled from a shortlist provided by the department's Biostatistics Unit. Selected mothers who visited the postnatal clinic were interviewed after verification that they were non- referral patients, and resided in Accra and their respective neighbourhood throughout the duration of the pregnancy. The study population included 592 newborns (response rate 91.5%).
Exposure assessment
We studied the independent and joint effects of charcoal usage and garbage burning on fetal growth. Exposure information was collected by using a structured questionnaire to obtain information on the type of cooking fuel used, type and ventilation rating of cooking enclosure, frequency and duration of cooking activities, amount of time spent in cooking area during cooking sessions, practice of garbage burning in household, frequency of garbage burning, and presence of mother during garbage burning sessions.
Households using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) only without charcoal or garbage burning constituted the reference category. The two main household fuel types were used alone and in combination. To study the independent and joint effects of these together with garbage burning we used the following exposure categories: (1) charcoal use only, (2) charcoal and LPG use, (3) garbage burning only, (4) both LPG use and garbage burning, and (5) both charcoal use and garbage burning. For charcoal and garbage burning we also used ordinal scale exposure parameter: low, moderate and high.
The level of exposure to charcoal and garbage burning was defined as follows. For use of charcoal only, step one involved (a) classifying the following as high exposure practices: cooking up to the seventh or ninth month of pregnancy, cooking frequency of four or more times per week, staying in cooking area throughout the whole duration of each cooking session, and cooking area ventilation ratings of poor or satisfactory, and (b) classifying the following as low exposure practices: cooking up to the sixth month of pregnancy, cooking frequency of less than four times per week, staying in cooking area for up to about half the duration of each cooking session, and cooking area ventilation ratings of good, very good or excellent. Step two involved (a) classifying maternal report of all four high exposure practices or a combination of any three high exposure practices and any one low exposure practice as high exposure; (b) classifying maternal report of a combination of any two high exposure practices and any two low exposure practices as moderate exposure, and (c) classifying maternal report of all four low exposure practices or a combination of any three low exposure practices and any one high exposure practices as low exposure.
With regards to garbage burning only, step one involved (a) classifying the following as high exposure practices: garbage burning frequency of four or more times per week, and regular presence in household during combustion, and (b) classifying the following as low exposure practices: garbage burning frequency of less than four times per week, and occasional presence in household during combustion. Step two involved (a) classifying maternal report of the two high exposure practices as high exposure, (b) classifying maternal report of a combination of any one high exposure practice and any one low exposure practice as moderate exposure, and (c) classifying maternal report of the two low exposure practices as low exposure.
The main outcome was fetal growth which was measured both as birth weight in grams and low birth weight (birth weight below 2500 grams). Birth weight of the newborns was obtained from hospital records. An RGZ-20 baby scale which measures birth weight in kilograms up to two decimal places was used at the facility to weigh newborns immediately after birth. The scale was regularly calibrated by the health staff.
Ethical approval was sought for the study from Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Committee. Informed consent form was used to seek the consent of all participants before inclusion in the study.
We compared the average birth weight and the risk of low birth weight according to categories of charcoal and garbage burning-related exposure using t-test and Chi-square test to assess the role of chance. Chi-square test was also used to investigate the differences in cooking fuel choices of mothers according to their socioeconomic characteristics. We applied multivariate methods for assessing the exposure-outcome relations. First, we applied multiple linear regression to estimate the independent and joint effects of the two exposures on average birth weight. Second, we applied generalized linear models (PROC GENMOD) with Poisson distribution and log link to estimate the independent and joint effects of indoor air pollution on the risk of LBW. All models were adjusted for age, social class, marital status and gravidity of mothers; and sex of neonate. Pearson's correlation and Mantel-Haenszel linear by linear Chi-square test was used for trend analysis of the exposure-response relationships. We performed sensitivity analysis by restricting the analysis to term births (≥37 weeks of gestation). SPSS version 16.0 was used to perform all the analysis with the exception of the PROC GENMOD analysis which was done with SAS version 9.3.
The characteristics of the mothers and their neonates are presented in Table1 and Table2. More than half (58.8%) of the respondents were classified as low social class with about 5% of the respondents identified as high social class. A quarter (25.3%) of the respondents were young mothers (<24 years) with older mothers (>35 years) making up about 15% of the respondents studied. Majority of the respondents (77.2%) were married. A high proportion of the respondents (45.1%) were educated up to junior high level. About 7% of the respondents had no formal education. Majority of the respondents (43.6%) were traders and street vendors. Hairdressers and seamstresses made up about 30% of the respondents studied. The proportion of office workers was 6%. About 39% of the respondents were primigravida. Of the mothers studied, 94.3% were cooking during pregnancy. Half of the mothers who cooked (50.5%) used charcoal only with about 29% of them using LPG only. About 19% of the mothers used a combination of both fuels. Cooking fuel choices of mothers was dependent on their social class, educational level and occupation. Of the proportion of charcoal users, and charcoal & LPG users, more than half respectively were identified as low social class. Of the proportion of mothers identified as high social class, majority used LPG for cooking. Also, of the proportion of mothers with no formal education and those educated up to junior high level, over half of them used charcoal for cooking. Of the tertiary educated mothers, over half of them used LPG for cooking. Charcoal users were mostly traders, street vendors, hairdressers and seamstresses. Office workers mostly used LPG for cooking. About 27% of the mothers studied reported garbage burning in their homes during pregnancy. The proportion of mothers using charcoal only for cooking and burning garbage at home simultaneously was 15%.
Table 1 Characteristics of the Study Population
Table 2 Characteristics of Neonates, and LBW Cases and Mean Birth Weight (grams) by Cooking Fuel Use and Garbage Burning at Home
More than half of the neonates (53.2%) were males. First order births made up about 38% of the neonates. Neonates delivered to charcoal users, and charcoal & LPG users were respectively 322g and 254g lighter than neonates delivered to LPG users. The differences in means were highly significant. Also, neonates delivered to mothers burning garbage at home were 310g lighter than neonates delivered to LPG users. The mean difference was also significant. Neonates delivered to mothers using charcoal only for cooking as well as burning garbage at home were 392g lighter than neonates delivered to LPG user. The mean difference was statistically significant. About 18% of the neonates were born LBW. The risk of LBW was related to fuel choices and garbage burning practices of mothers, independently and jointly.
The unadjusted and adjusted effect of cooking fuel use and garbage burning at home on birth weight and risk of LBW are presented in Table3 and Table4. Charcoal use and garbage burning at home were all determinants of reduced birth weight. The estimated reduction in birth weight was 243g (95% CI: 496, 11) and 178g (95% CI: 421, 65) for use of charcoal, and garbage burning at home. The associations were however not statistically significant. An exposure-response relationship was nonetheless noted with high exposure from charcoal use and garbage burning associated with an increased reduction in birth weight. A linear trend test of the association was statistically significant. The use of charcoal together with garbage burning at home was associated with further reductions in birth weight. The estimated reduction in birth weight was 429g (95% CI: 259, 599).
Table 3 Unadjusted and Adjusted Effect of Cooking Fuel Use and Garbage Burning at Home
Table 4 Unadjusted and Adjusted Risk of Low Birth Weight attributable to Cooking Fuel Use and Garbage Burning at Home
Use of charcoal and garbage burning at home were risk factors for LBW. Garbage burning at home resulted in a 195% increase in the risk of LBW. High exposure from garbage burning was also associated with a 359% increase in the risk of LBW. A linear trend test of the association was statistically significant. Charcoal use generally was associated with a small and statistically insignificant increase in the risk of LBW. Applying the ordinal scale exposure parameter for charcoal however resulted in a statistically significant association, albeit an inverse trend was observed with high exposure associated with decrease risk. Charcoal use together with garbage burning at home was associated with further increase in the risk of LBW. The estimated increase in the risk of LBW for joint charcoal use and garbage burning was 316%.
The sensitivity analysis produced similar results but with slightly lower effect estimates generally.
The results of our study indicate a strong, exposure-related inverse association between maternal use of charcoal as cooking fuel during pregnancy and birth weight of the newborn. The average birth weight of babies born among exposed mother was 243g (95% CI: 496, 11) lower compared with the babies of mothers using LPG as cooking fuel. Garbage burning at home was an important risk factor for LBW. Garbage burning was associated with a 195% (RR=2.95; 95% CI: 1.10, 7.92) increase in the risk of LBW. Joint evaluation of these two exposures resulted in further reductions in birth weight and additional increase in the risk of LBW.
Validity of results
We selected consecutive mothers giving birth in a teaching hospital and thus the study population represents a defined catchment area. We achieved a high response rate (91.5%) which minimizes selection bias. Mothers giving birth at KBTH as against other facilities in the study area where not a distinct cohort from the source population but do so mainly because of the hospital's proximity to their homes and/or the comprehensive and specialist services on offer. We also carefully excluded mothers referred to the facility for whatever reason from the study. The outcome of interest was measured and recorded independently from the study and represent a well defined and objective variable with a negligible measurement error. Information on exposure and potential confounders was collected retrospectively. Use of cooking fuel choices and garbage burning practices represents quantitatively well-defined entity and it is reasonable to assume that retrospective data collection resulted in relatively reliable data on maternal exposure during pregnancy. The ordinal scale exposure variable per the use of maternal report of fuel type, and cooking and garbage burning practices was sensitive to certain amount of measurement error but was however not likely to be related to the outcome of interest. In summary, it reasonable to assume the exposure assessment reflects reasonably well the exposure conditions during pregnancy.
Although we applied a cross-sectional study design, we were able to collect reasonably valid exposure information from the time period relevant for causation of reduction in fetal growth and therefore our results support a causal relation between the exposures and the outcome of interest. Establishment of temporal relation may be problematic in some research settings with the use of cross-sectional study design. This however should not be a concern in our study because it is clear that exposure to combustion pollutants was present during pregnancy among mothers who cooked with charcoal and those who reported garbage burning at their homes. Also it was increasingly clear from the information collected from the mothers and summarized by the investigators that the choices of cooking fuels and garbage burning activities remained relatively stable in our research settings. It is possible that some women using charcoal during most of the duration of pregnancy might have reported use of LPG as their primary fuel, but this information bias would rather tend to underestimate the true effect. We were not able to undertake air quality measurements in homes of the mothers. The potential for exposure misclassification nonetheless is reduced in our study because the quantitative assessment of exposure to combustion pollutants from charcoal use and garbage burning comprised several types of information collected from participants and summarized by the investigators, including duration of cooking, time spent in cooking area, type of ventilation applied as well as frequency of garbage burning at home and how often mothers were present during combustion.
The study adjusted for the effect of age, social class, marital status and gravidity of mothers, and sex of neonate in the analysis. We had reliable information on gestational age of mothers but did not consider it as a covariate in the analysis based on a recent work by Wilcox and colleagues[15] which reported gestational age as a collider and provided evidence of the likely bias produced by adjustment for gestational age in statistical analysis. We were however unable to examine the effect of other determinants of birth weight such as maternal nutrition and anthropometry, malaria and sexually transmitted infections. IAP exposure during pregnancy is not expected to be dependent on these factors hence the estimated effect of IAP exposure on birth weight is not likely to be confounded by these factors. Maternal smoking is another important determinant of birth weight, but in Ghana only few women smoke. The 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey[16] estimated the proportion of women smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products to be 0.4%. Maternal smoking can therefore not be considered as a serious threat to validity in this study. Cooking fuel was related to social class (p<0.0001), educational level (p<0.0001) and occupation (p<0.0001) of mothers and likely to influence IAP exposure experience during pregnancy. LPG was the primary fuel of high social class mothers with charcoal the preferred fuel of low social class mothers. Uneducated and semi-literate (educated up to junior high school) mothers preferred charcoal with tertiary level educated mothers patronizing LPG. Traders, street vendors, hairdressers and seamstresses had preference for charcoal with office workers preferring LPG. Studies in Ethiopia[17], Cameroun[18] and Kenya[19] also associated household cooking fuel choices with employment, income, educational level and social class of women. We adjusted for the effect of social class but not educational level and occupation of mothers in the analysis due to the well known fact that education and occupation determines social class of an individual, and also the fact they were unrelated to birth weight in our analysis. Controlling for confounding by social class is always problematic especially in our study where more than half (58.8%) of the study participants were low social class. This is due to the strong effects of social class on health outcomes. We do not therefore overrule the possibility of residual confounding by social class in our study, but we think residual confounding does not solely explain our observations on the adverse effects of combustion products from charcoal and garbage burning.
Synthesis with previous studies
A systematic literature search identified six previous studies conducted in Guatemala[9, 10], Zimbabwe[11], Pakistan[12] and India[13, 14] that have assessed the relationship between indoor pollution from solid fuel use and birth weight. The study in Guatemala[9] found babies born to mothers who used wood to be 63g lighter than babies born to mothers who used gas or electricity. The other study in Guatemala[10] was a randomized control trial and found infants born to mothers who used open fires (control group) to be on average 89g lighter than infants whose mothers used a chimney stove (intervention group). The study in Zimbabwe[11] found babies born to mothers cooking with wood, dung, or straw to be on average 175g lighter compared with babies born to mothers using LPG, natural gas, or electricity. In the Pakistan study[12], infants born to wood users were on average 82g lighter than infants born to natural gas users. This study also estimated the population attributable risk for LBW explained by wood use to be 24%. The earlier Indian study[13] found infants born to women from households using wood and/or dung as primary cooking fuel to be 104.5g lighter than infants born to mothers from households using biogas or kerosene. This study also reported exposure to biomass fuel to be associated with an adjusted 49% increased risk of LBW. The recent Indian study[14] found children born in households using high pollution fuels (wood, straw, animal dung, crop residues, kerosene, coal and charcoal) to be 73g lighter than those born in households using low pollution fuels (electricity, LPG, natural gas and biogas). A recent meta-analysis[20] of five studies examining this relationship also estimated a reduced mean birth weight of 95.6g (95% CI: 68.5, 124.7) and an increase risk of LBW of 38% (OR = 1.38, 95% CI: 1.25, 1.52) among women exposed to IAP. This study also estimated the population attributable risk for LBW explained by IAP to be 21%.
The findings of our study are consistent with these previous studies albeit our effect estimates were quite larger than any previously reported. The similar results produced from the sensitivity analysis means use of charcoal as cooking fuel and garbage burning at home represents an important threat to optimal fetal growth. We do not by any means imply with the large effect sizes reported that charcoal is a high polluting and more potent fuel than other biomass like wood, dung and crop residue. Garbage burning on the other hand releases dioxins, hazardous chemical substances that have been shown in animal studies to severely impair fetal growth even at low levels of exposure. Studies in human populations have also reported associations of low level dioxin exposure during pregnancy with decreased birth weight[21–24]. Our study and the previous reviewed however did not actually measure the quantity of biomass combusted and the amount of pollutants released for which mothers were exposed. It is therefore reasonable to assume that our study participants might have on average combusted large quantities of charcoal and garbage during pregnancy with the cumulative adverse effect reflected in the large effect estimates reported. The significant exposure-response relationship observed by our study to some extent confirms this assertion. We must however emphasize that unmeasured confounding, and residual confounding by social class as already noted could contribute to the large effect sizes reported in spite of efforts to eliminate this potential confounding from our study.
The studies highlighted however had some limitations which our study was purposely designed to address and strengthen the epidemiological evidence. Firstly, the studies in Zimbabwe[11] and India[14] relied on mothers self-report of child size at birth in respectively estimating birth weight of 47% and 60% of their study infants. This could have resulted in under or over estimation of birth weight of these infants. Secondly, the other studies cited[9, 10, 12, 13] were community-based and obtaining timely measurement of birth weight of infants delivered at home was problematic. The time of measurement in some cases raises doubt about their acceptability as true reflection of birth weight of these infants. A baby's weight can fluctuate within the first week of life with newborns losing up to 10% of their birth weight during the first 3–5 days of life. Some of the studies in an attempt to address this limitation, restricted birth weight analysis to newborns weighed within 48–72 hours after birth. Lastly, majority of households in developing countries use a combination of cooking fuels with those in urban areas especially usually using a combination of polluting and clean fuels as a way of reducing household fuel bills and to at times hasten the preparation of meals. In Ghana for instance, majority of urban households mostly use LPG for preparing sauces, stews, soups and continental meals with charcoal used mainly for preparing staple foods such as banku, fufu and ampesi. Most of the households that use LPG for cooking are also compelled to rely on charcoal when LPG is in short supply. All the studies highlighted collected information on primary cooking fuel of participants without attempting to identify participants using a combination of cooking fuels. This distinction is important for proper quantification of exposure experiences of study participants. For instance, in settings where use of combination of polluting and clean fuels prevails, assessing only primary cooking fuel could result in under or over estimation of exposure. About 19% of the mothers who participated in our study used a combination of charcoal and LPG for cooking.
Our study to the best of our knowledge is the first to examine the contribution of garbage burning at home to the indoor exposure experience of pregnant women, and its relation with birth weight of newborns. Over a quarter (27%) of the mothers studied reported garbage burning in their homes during pregnancy. Garbage burning is a frequent practice in a number of Ghanaian urban households as a way of managing their solid waste. This is because most urban areas especially the secluded and deprived zones are usually not reached with waste collection services. Areas receiving these services are also faced with untimely and irregular service provision. In rural Ghana, the situation is different with younger members of the household tasked with disposing of the household waste at designated sites in the community each morning. The sight of garbage burning in rural households is therefore uncommon.
Biological plausibility
Burning of charcoal, other solid fuels and garbage emits smoke which contains a number of air pollutants including carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM). Inhaled CO and PM impairs fetal growth in two ways; (1) CO combines with hemoglobin to cross the placenta decreasing oxygen supply to tissue which limits the ability of the placenta to transfer nutrients to the fetus, and (2) PM reduces maternal lung function thereby increasing the risk of maternal lung disease, and in turn reducing oxygen delivery to the fetus as well as causing cell damage in the fetus through oxidative stress[25, 26]. Impaired fetal growth subsequently leads to reduced or low birth weight[26, 27]. Also, reduced oxygen transport across the placenta and fetal uptake due to reduced oxygen supply to the placenta can result in preterm delivery and consequently reduced or low birth weight[27]. The fetus in particular is considered to be highly susceptible to environmental pollutants because of its differential exposure pattern and physiological immaturity[28, 29]. The high cell proliferation and changing metabolic mechanisms during the critical phase of fetal development have been identified as the physiological process that renders the developing fetus extremely vulnerable to environmental toxicants[30].
Our results proved evidence that maternal use of charcoal as a cooking fuel during pregnancy and burning of garbage at home are strong determinants of average fetal growth and risk of LBW. Improving the social status and income levels of women residing in deprived areas, scaling up household waste collection services to cover all areas of urban centers, and increasing LPG production facilities, expanding distribution networks in urban centers, and curbing their competing use in motor vehicles are important in reducing maternal exposures to IAP, and improving birth outcomes in Accra metropolis and other large urban areas in the developing world.
IAP:
Indoor air pollution
KBTH:
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
LBW:
Low birth weight
LPG:
Standard deviation.
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We are grateful to all the mothers who participated in the study. We thank Godwin Binlinla, Michael Amoako, Moses Kumi Darko, Michael Halm-Lutterudt and Isaac Idun, all of the Biostatistics Unit of the Maternity Department of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital during the period of the study for their immense assistance during the data collection. The study was supported by Radel Consulting; a firm located in Accra, Ghana that promotes public health research and information dissemination. Jouni JK Jaakkola contribution was supported by the Academy of Finland, SALVE Research Program (Grant no. 129419).
Department of Human Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Adeladza K Amegah
Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Adeladza K Amegah, Jouni JK Jaakkola & Reginald Quansah
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Adeladza K Amegah & Gameli K Norgbe
Department of Biological, Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Mawuli Dzodzomenyo
Jouni JK Jaakkola
Reginald Quansah
Gameli K Norgbe
Correspondence to Adeladza K Amegah.
AKA designed the study with support from GKN and MD, conducted the analysis under the guidance of JJKJ and RQ, and wrote the manuscript with assistance from JJKJ. GKN, MD and RQ reviewed the drafts. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Amegah, A.K., Jaakkola, J.J., Quansah, R. et al. Cooking fuel choices and garbage burning practices as determinants of birth weight: a cross-sectional study in Accra, Ghana. Environ Health 11, 78 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-11-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-11-78
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Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity
C. Geoffrey Lau, Koichi Takeuchi, Alma Rodenas-Ruano, Yukihiro Takayasu, Jessica Murphy, Michael V.I. Bennett, R. Suzanne Zukin
NMDARs (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors) are critical for synaptic function throughout the CNS (central nervous system). NMDAR-mediated Ca2+ in.ux is implicated in neuronal differentiation, neuronal migration, synaptogenesis, structural remodelling, long-lasting forms of synaptic plasticity and higher cognitive functions. NMDAR-mediated Ca2+ signalling in dendritic spines is not static, but can be remodelled in a cell- and synapse-specific manner by NMDAR subunit composition, protein kinases and neuronal activity during development and in response to sensory experience. Recent evidence indicates that Ca2+ permeability of neuronal NMDARs, NMDAR-mediated Ca2+ signalling in spines and induction of NMDAR-dependent LTP (long-term potentiation) at hippocampal Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses are under control of the cAMP/PKA (protein kinase A) signalling cascade. Thus, by enhancing Ca2+ influx through NMDARs in spines, PKA can regulate the induction of LTP. An emerging concept is that activity-dependent regulation of NMDAR-mediated Ca2+ signalling by PKA and by extracellular signals that modulate cAMP or protein phosphatases at synaptic sites provides a dynamic and potentially powerful mechanism for bi-directional regulation of synaptic efficacy and remodelling.
Biochemical Society transactions
https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0371369
N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)
Protein kinase
Synaptic plasticity
10.1042/BST0371369
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Lau, C. G., Takeuchi, K., Rodenas-Ruano, A., Takayasu, Y., Murphy, J., Bennett, M. V. I., & Zukin, R. S. (2009). Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity. Biochemical Society transactions, 37(6), 1369-1374. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0371369
Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity. / Lau, C. Geoffrey; Takeuchi, Koichi; Rodenas-Ruano, Alma; Takayasu, Yukihiro; Murphy, Jessica; Bennett, Michael V.I.; Zukin, R. Suzanne.
In: Biochemical Society transactions, Vol. 37, No. 6, 2009, p. 1369-1374.
Lau, CG, Takeuchi, K, Rodenas-Ruano, A, Takayasu, Y, Murphy, J, Bennett, MVI & Zukin, RS 2009, 'Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity', Biochemical Society transactions, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1369-1374. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0371369
Lau CG, Takeuchi K, Rodenas-Ruano A, Takayasu Y, Murphy J, Bennett MVI et al. Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity. Biochemical Society transactions. 2009;37(6):1369-1374. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0371369
Lau, C. Geoffrey ; Takeuchi, Koichi ; Rodenas-Ruano, Alma ; Takayasu, Yukihiro ; Murphy, Jessica ; Bennett, Michael V.I. ; Zukin, R. Suzanne. / Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity. In: Biochemical Society transactions. 2009 ; Vol. 37, No. 6. pp. 1369-1374.
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All-TIME 100 Albums
The album may be dead, but it's certainly not forgotten. TIME's critics have chosen the 100 greatest and most influential musical compilations since 1954.
Slanted and Enchanted
By Josh Tyrangiel Jan. 22, 2010
Artist: Pavement
Sales of Pavement’s fuzzed-out masterpiece don’t stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the 90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals are models of cryptic passion. “Summer Babe” could pass for a rougher than normal bit of classic rock if Malkmus weren’t singing, “She waits there in the levee wash, mixing cocktails with a plastic-tipped cigar” before finally getting to the money line—”You’re my summer babe!” Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart ass as well as an awareness that ennui isn’t tragic. As Malkmus yelped on “Conduit for Sale”: “Between here and there is better than either here or there.”
Next The Chronic
Here’s Little Richard
Songs for Swingin’ Lovers
In the Wee Small Hours
Stand!
Astral Weeks
Pet Sounds
Highway 61 Revisited
At Folsom Prison
Otis Blue
The Beatles (“The White Album”)
A Love Supreme
Are You Experienced
Live at the Apollo (1963)
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
King of the Delta Blues
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Blonde on Blonde
One Nation Under a Groove
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Exile on Main Street
Who’s Next
Talking Book
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Songs in the Key of Life
Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso)
Red Headed Stranger
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The Great Twenty-Eight
Sign O’ The Times
OK Computer
Endtroducing…
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Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection
Elv1s 30 No. 1 Hits
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The Anthology, 1947-1972
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Doctoral Program in Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties
Doctoral Program in Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties 2020–2021
Email: docto@unizar.es
Plan code: 501
Coordinator: Yolanda Gamarra Chopo
Web específica del programa
> Program Skills
> Entry Requirements and Enrolment
> Follow Up and Evaluation
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The students of the program acquire the basic competences indicated in article 5 of Royal Decree 99/2011 on doctorate. They are the following:
Systematic understanding of their field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
Ability to perform a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement within a society based on knowledge.
Personal Abilities and Skills
The RD 99/2011 highlights the high professional training of doctors in various fields, especially those that require creativity and innovation. Therefore, the doctors of the program will have acquired, at least, personal skills and abilities to:
Develop in contexts in which there is little specific information.
Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
Design, create, develop and undertake innovative and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
Work both as a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
Integrate knowledge, face complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
The criticism and intellectual defence of solutions.
Other Specific Program Competences
The requirements for access to doctorate studies are set in RD 99/2011 and can be consulted in the corresponding Instruction of the Doctorate School (pdf). In general, an official Spanish Bachelor's and Master's degrees or equivalent are required, with a minimum global extension of 300 ECTS credits.
Candidates with university degrees issued by a country of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) may request admission directly (info). If the degree is issued by a country outside the EHEA, the application for access with a non-homologated foreign degree must be submitted (info).
Those interested can expand their information in the administrative section of the Doctoral School (web) or the administration of the program (see contact data in the program general information section).
Program Specific Information
Oferta de plazas: 10
Specific Training Activities
Enrolment Dates, Deadlines and Procedure
Doctoral students, as researchers in training and students of the University of Zaragoza, have to formalize every year the enrollment with the corresponding rights to the academic tutorship while continuing their doctoral training. The enrollment period will be set in the academiccalendar approved each year by the Doctoral School.
As a general rule, enrollment will be done online through the Secretaría Virtual ofthe University of Zaragoza. Previously a personal identification number (NIP) and password will have been obtained in the identity management service. Face-to-face registration will be allowed to those who cannot do it online, by going to the doctoral school during public service hours. PhD students must submit every year in which they enroll, documentation about their previous studies, depending on whether they have been taken in countries of the European Education Area or outside that space.
Full and up-to-date information on the enrollment procedure, including key points, is provided on the website of the Doctoral School, as well as prices, discounts and insurance, legalization and translation of documents and some others practical details.
Thesis Supervision
The procedures for the supervision of doctoral students are set in article 11 of Royal Decree 99/2011, which regulates doctoral studies and the rules about Thesis (Reglamento sobre Tesis Doctorales de la Universidad de Zaragoza). The doctoral student admitted to the program has to enrol each academic year in academic tutelage at the University of Zaragoza. The Academic Committee of the program will assign a Thesis Director and a tutor, who may or may not be the same. The Thesis Director will be the person in charge of the overall management of the doctoral student's research tasks, of the coherence and adequacy of the training activities, of the impact and novelty in his/her field of the subject of the doctoral thesis and of the guide in other projects and activities where the doctoral student is involved. The tutor is responsible for the adaptation of the training and the research activity to the principles of the program and the Doctoral School and will ensure the interaction of the doctoral student with the Academic Committee of the program, the body responsible for supervising the progress of the research and training and the authorization of the thesis presentation of each doctoral student of the program.
The supervisory functions of the doctoral students will be documented in the Doctorate Letter which, once the registration is made, will be signed by the doctoral student, its tutor and its director, the program coordinator and the director of the Doctoral School. Those interested can expand the information on the thesis supervision in the administrative headquarters of the program (see contact information in the general information of the program) or by consulting the program coordinator.
Student's Follow-up and Evaluation
The follow-up of the training process leading to the presentation of the doctoral thesis is carried out through the research plan and the doctoral student's document of activities. The research plan is presented before the end of the first year of enrolment and includes, at least, the methodology to be used and the objectives to be achieved, as well as the means and the temporal planning to achieve it. The plan may be improved and detailed later and must be endorsed by the Director and the tutor. The document of activities is the register of all the activities -research stays, courses, attendance to congresses, or others- that the doctorate carries out from his enrolment until the presentation of the doctoral thesis. Annually, the Academic Committee of the program will evaluate the follow-up of the research plan together with the document of activities. The positive evaluation will be an essential requirement to continue in the program. In the case of a negative evaluation, the doctoral student must be evaluated again within a maximum period of six months. Those interested can expand this information in the administrative headquarters of the program (see contact information in the general information of the program) or by consulting the program coordinator.
Once the thesis is concluded, the doctoral student must proceed to deposit and defend it according to the dispositions included in the thesis regulation of the University of Zaragoza and its procedure (info).
Transversal Training Activities
The Doctoral School offers an annual series of voluntary activities for all doctoral students. This formation has a transversal and interdisciplinary nature. The offer is dynamic and covers the following formative aspects: communication (oral and written), access and information management, and skills for a future social and professional performance. Information about the activities, admission and enrolment can be found in the website of the Doctoral School (info).
Additionally, other formative activities of interest for a wide range of our doctoral students are disseminated through our web (info).
Doctoral students enrolled in doctoral programs benefit from mobility aids established in various national and international calls. The calls for the Erasmus + program stand out.
In the Erasmus + Studies mode, doctoral students can choose a wide range of destinations, since most of the agreements signed by the University of Zaragoza with other universities include places for PhD students of all branches.
In the Erasmus + Stays / Practices in companies modality, PhD students access two calls: the one from the University of Zaragoza and the one carried out by the Iberus International Campus of Excellence for the universities that comprise it, the one from Zaragoza among them.
Other mobility calls are specifically designed for Latin American students and for international stays of students with predoctoral contracts. The mobility of doctoral students of the University of Zaragoza is also encouraged with cotutela agreements signed with foreign universities.
Human Rights, Business and interculturality
Legal protection and guarantees of Human Rights. Implementation and effectiveness of DH from a socio-legal, criminal and international perspective
Derechos Humanos, empresa e interculturalidad
María Elósegui Ichaso
Protección jurídica y garantías de los Derechos Humanos. Implementación y eficacia de los DH desde un enfoque socio-jurídico, penal e internacional
María Carmen Aguilar Martín
María Carmen Alastuey Dobón
Rafael Álvarez Gimeno
Juan Francisco Baltar Rodríguez
María José Bernuz Beneitez
Miguel Ángel Boldova Pasamar
Martin Borowski
Enrique Cebrián Zazurca
Louis Leon Christians
Zoila Combalía Solís
María Pilar Diago Diago
María Estrella Escuchuri Aísa
Natividad Fernández Sola
Vincenzo Ferrari
Marie Claire Foblets
Fernando Galindo Ayuda
Yolanda Gamarra Chopo
Andrés García Inda
Carlos Garrido López
Carlos Gómez Bahillo
María Josefa González Ordobás
Alejandro Gónzalez-Varas Ibáñez
María Rosa Gutiérrez Sanz
José Ignacio Lacasta Zabalza
María José Lopera Castillejo
Consuelo Martínez Priego
Ana Belén Mayo Calderón
José Félix Muñoz Soro
Ángel Daniel Oliver Lalana
François Ost
Francisco Jose Palacios Romeo
María Ángeles Parra Lucán
María Teresa Picontó Novales
María Angeles Rueda Martín
Bernd Schunemann
Antonio Serrano González
Asier Urruela Mora
Jorge Vizueta Fernández
Researcher Resumé (CV)
The Doctoral School of the University of Zaragoza has rules and procedures to achieve its various goals, which have been written with the agreement of the different levels of the Doctoral School, and are published on its website.
The regulations section of the Doctoral School website contains other important regulations, both national and of the University of Zaragoza, such as RD 99/2011 por el que se regulan las enseñanzas oficiales de doctorado, el Reglamento de los Estudios de Doctorado (2012) y el Reglamento sobre tesis doctorales (2014).
PhD Duration and Their Management Rules
Rules of duration and permanence in the doctorate are established in Instrucción de23 de mayo de 2018 de la Escuela de Doctorado relativa al acceso, admisión,dedicación y permanencia en los estudios de doctorado de la Universidad deZaragoza (R.D. 99/2011).
Full-time thesis should be complete in three years, from the date of admission to the doctoral program, although the Academic Committee of the program may authorize the extension of this period for one more year. Part-time doctoral students will have five years from their admission to the presentation of the thesis, and the Academic Committee may authorize an extension for two more years. Exceptionally, an additional year of extension can be added.
PhD candidates may request a change in dedication (full-time / part-time) as well as the temporary withdrawal for justified reasons of the Academic Committee. They can cause a definitive withdrawal and see their file closed in these cases: if the available time to deposit the thesis is exceeded or if they receive two consecutive negative evaluations of the research plan.
These processes are explained in detail on our website (info) and the doctoral students are told how to proceed in cases of temporary withdrawal (info).
The academic year is governed by the deadlines established in the specific Doctoral School´s academic calendar.
This calendar sets the periods of request for entry, admission to the programs, enrollment at the University of Zaragoza, as well as how the students must present every year the research plan and the activities document, deadlines for defending doctoral theses, etc.
The Doctoral School website publishes the calendar of the current course as well as the two previous courses (info).
Informe de evaluación de la calidad del curso 2018/2019
Informe de la Calidad de los Estudios de Doctorado y de sus diferentes Programas del curso 2018/2019
Informe de la Calidad de los Estudios de Doctorado y de sus diferentes Programas de años anteriores
Plan anual de innovación y mejora del curso 2018/2019
Student satisfaction survey 2019/2020
Directors and tutor satisfaction survey 2019/2020
Satisfacción e inserción laboral de egresados de la Escuela de Doctorado 2018/2019
Encuestas a egresados doctorado 2017/2018. Resumen ejecutivo
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Mexico’s route to sustainability
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By Sofia Solley, Head of Finance at Anahuac University and member of Mexico’s Center of Excellence in Corporate Governance
We understand corporate governance to be the guidelines and structure of a company that enables business goals to be fulfilled in a manner that adds value while at the same time keeping in mind the best interests of all shareholders. In the last 10 years, Mexico has been witness to a growing and richer corporate governance culture and companies have seen the benefits and profits of its application. But is it enough?
Investors and key stakeholders increasingly demand that organisations implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) programmes in their core strategy and operations and, moreover, they demand transparency and disclosure from these ESG practices.
In light of these national and global trends, the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) created a sustainability index integrated by the best ESG-rated companies (32 out of 111 Mexican companies). The rating methodology was developed by the Anahuac University, which collects and analyses information related to corporate governance, social responsibility and environmental issues of listed companies on the BMV.
Successful sustainability and corporate responsibility programmes do great things for their organisations and all stakeholders. Companies that want to embrace sustainability practices should aim to have governance structures that adequately support the vision of implementing social responsibility and environmental initiatives within organisations. In order to achieve this, establishing a governance structure to operate sustainability and corporate responsibility programmes is essential.
Mexico’s sustainability index focusses on three principles and a company must ensure that there is a timely and accurate disclosure of all matters relating to these principles in order to assure accountability and transparency to investors.
The first rated principle is the corporate governance framework, which should protect and facilitate the exercise of ownership and stakeholder rights and equal treatment of all shareholders. The firm must be strategically oriented by the board, which should effectively control executives and management and it should always encourage the communication of all relevant information, including conflicts of interest.
Second, social responsibility is measured by how the company commits to values and human rights. The objective selection of values is fundamental for the transcendence of any firm but the core pillar of any organisation is its collaborators and therefore we encourage companies to incentivise, train, educate and care for all working personnel they hire. Plus, they should take into account the characteristics of the society that surrounds them and be aware of the positive and negative externalities their operations may derive from.
Last but not least, the organisation should show a formal commitment to environmental care matters. Management strategies should contribute to achieving environmental goals and the board should actively monitor them.
What the evidence tells us…
After five years of rating listed companies of all different sectors in Mexico, we have experienced a constant improvement regarding ESG implementation and reporting. It seems that now, more than ever, companies understand the importance of sustainability and governance matters with practitioners designated to transform an organisation by minimising negative impact while maximising value for stakeholders.
Mexico has a rich history of family businesses for which changing their board structure might be difficult. But as time has evolved, we have seen how the percentage of independent board members has increased and how now very few companies select their CEO as their board chairperson.
Furthermore, many companies who did not report anything regarding environmental and social responsibility now release comprehensive sustainability reports in both Spanish and English.
In the chart below we can appreciate the percentage of best practices achievement from 2010 to 2015 divided by industry sector. The improvement has been remarkable and of great impact in growth and profit for both companies and investors.
According to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, ‘responsible investment is driven by a growing recognition in the financial community that effective research, analysis and evaluation of ESG issues is a fundamental part of assessing the value and performance of an investment over the medium and longer term’.
Proof of this is the steadfast upward behaviour that international sustainability indexes have had in recent years. As we can see in the graphic (below), Mexico’s Sustainability Index has followed the same global trend, presenting even higher returns than average in the last thee years.
It has been these results that have motivated companies to increasingly immerse themselves in social responsibility, environment and corporate governance. Boards have now taken a more active role in the development of their organisation’s strategies and values related to ESG.
We believe there is no better way to encourage organisations and investors to continue down this road than experiencing actual results and returns for themselves. The improvement and enthusiasm companies have shown is outstanding, but there is still a long way to go.
As a crucial entity in financial education, the Anahuac University, along with the BMV, is committed to remain on this journey. Our goal is to encourage all listed companies to follow the corporate actions taken by the ones selected for the sustainability index.
Looking forward, we make it our purpose to infuse smaller family businesses in Mexico with corporate governance and sustainability education. This will promote their growth and stimulate them to become public companies, inducing capital markets and the economy of Mexico to grow.
Sofia Solley is Head of Finance at Anahuac University and member of Mexico’s Center of Excellence in Corporate Governance (CEGC). As a member, she led the project for developing CEGC’s Corporate Governance Best Practices and Stock Market Incorporation Practical Guide which was published in 2010 to encourage Mexican companies to become public and boost capital markets in Mexico.
Sofia spent several years in GBM (Grupo Bursátil Mexicano) managing and optimizing clients’ portfolios in Private Banking. This experience, along with her Masters in Finance, led her to develop the curriculum for the Financial Management Degree at Anahuac University. Apart from her regular responsibilities as Head of Finance and leading professor, she is responsible for rating eligible companies in corporate governance, social responsibility and environment for the Mexican Stock Exchange Sustainability Index. You can contact her at sofia.solley@anahuac.mx
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American History, Philosophies
In honor of US Army PFC Ernest Sutphin of West Virginia, 1983-2004
Living in the greatest country ever invented by the human mind, a country that was never ruled by any royal personage (someone believing the country was theirs by divine decree – hereditary or by violence), a country designed to be governed by the people and for the people through elected representatives, embodying the rights that all people aspire to embrace, is a privilege and a responsibility.
Two hundred and forty-one years ago, a group of independent-minded people made a unanimous declaration of their intension “to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another” as well as “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.”
And who, among American citizens by birth or by naturalization, regrets that dissolution?
Having lived in another country — where the rights of freedom of speech, religion, self-defense, privacy, due process, a fair trial and many others are not givens, where a person’s opportunities are determined by their station in an aristocracy, where a person is “subject” to the whims of the monarch, where the few remaining individual rights have been usurped by a distant, unaccountable, centralized bureaucracy — I joyfully, and with a strong sense of relief, returned to my native country.
Happy Birthday, America and long may the symbol of our great country wave over this land of free people whose freedom is protected by the bravest of us all.
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Sugarcane press mud
Sugarcane filter press mud, sugarcane pressmud, sugarcane filter cake mud, sugarcane filtercake, sugarcane filter mud, scum [English]; boues de filtration, boues de gâteau de filtration, gâteau de filtration [French]
Saccharum officinarum L. [Poaceae]
Plant products and by-products
Sugarcane forage, whole plant
Sugarcane bagasse
Sugarcane molasses
Sugarcane tops
Sugarcane press mud is the residue of the filtration of sugarcane juice. The clarification process separates the juice into a clear juice that rises to the top and goes for manufacture, and a mud that collects at the bottom. The mud is then filtered to separate the suspended matter, which includes insoluble salts and fine bagasse. There are 3 types of filter: the press filters (used in carbonatation factories), mechanical filters and rotary vacuum filters (Hugot, 1986). The yield of filter cake is variable, from 1 to 7 kg (wet basis) per 100 kg of cane (van der Poel et al., 1998). With a conservative yield of 2% and a total production of 1700 million t in 2009 (FAO, 2011), the world output of fresh filter press mud can be estimated to be about 30 million t.
This industrial waste is mostly used as soil conditioner, soil fertilizer and for wax production. Other industrial applications are reported (cement and paint manufacturing, foaming agent, composting aid for bagasse, etc.) and it has been used as human food by resource-poor families. In animal production, it has been used as feed ingredient, notably for ruminants, because of its sugar and mineral content, and as a compacting agent for ensiling (van der Poel et al., 1998).
Sugarcane press mud is produced in sugarcane mills and its distribution follows that of cane sugar production, with Brazil, India and China representing 75% of the world production (FAO, 2011).
Ideally, soil particles should be removed from the mixed juice before clarification. In order to avoid deterioration by fungi and bacteria, the press mud should be dried or fed immediately. Drying can be achieved with a drum drier to bring down the moisture content to about 15% and pelletizing can further reduce it to 10%, making it suitable for storage (LeGrand, 1979 cited by Chen et al., 1993).
Large amounts of press mud are released by the sugarcane industry and the disposal of this by-product is a major issue. In many cases press mud is burnt in brick kilns, resulting in the loss and wastage of millions of tonnes of nutrients, which ultimately degrades the environment. A common use is for fertilizer, in both the unprocessed or processed form. Processes used to improve its fertilizer value include composting, treatment with microorganisms and mixing with distillery effluents (Nasir, 2006).
Filter cake has a highly variable composition due to the different technologies involved. The nature of precipitation or flocculation aids, temperature and the fineness of the filtration process are all factors that influence its composition. The product may be fresh (60-80% water) or dried. Protein content and sugars are both in the 5-15% DM range. It can also contain important amounts of fibre (probably due to the 15-30% of fine bagasse). Ash content is usually between 9 and 20%, but some press cakes may contain up to 60% mineral matter, a large part of it being silicon. Calcium content range between 1 and 9% (van der Poel et al., 1998). The content of protein, sugar and fibre makes filter press mud a potential feed ingredient, but actual feed trials are scarce (Budeppa et al., 2009).
In India, a filter press cake containing more than 30% Ca (which is a highly unusual value) was proposed as a potential Ca source for livestock (Lall et al., 1989).
Potential constraints
No particular problems have been reported on using sugarcane press mud in animal feeding. However, the experience of feeding it to livestock is scarce; caution is therefore required because it is a mineral-rich filtration residue that could contain undesirable substances. For instance, some samples were found to contain relatively high amounts of copper (from 500 to 5700 mg/kg in van der Poel et al., 1998), which could be problematic for sheep.
Filter press mud as a feed
In Cuba, dried filter press mud has been used as a filler in ruminant maintenance diets at a level of 10-30%, together with poultry manure, final molasses, ground cane, urea and minerals. For this purpose the filter mud is sun-dried or dried using heat from chimney escape gases at the sugar factory (Perez, 1990). Dairy cows were fed up to 15% (diet DM) filter press mud (containing 13% crude fibre, 8.8% crude protein and 31.7% ash) replacing forage, with positive effects on dairy performance (milk yield, milk fat content, milk solids-not-fat), daily live weight gain, DM intake and ME intake (Rodriguez et al., 1973).
Filter press mud as an ensiling agent
In Cuba, filter press mud has been used as a compacting and wetting agent in surface silos where 60% cane by-products are ensiled together with 38% filter mud and 2% urea. As the cane by-products contains 60-70% DM, the filter mud with 30% DM and granular consistency contributes to the moisture and texture needed to ensure optimum silage (Perez, 1990).
With an MEn value of 8.85 MJ/kg DM, sugarcane press mud was considered to be a potential low-energy feed ingredient in poultry diets in Sri Lanka (Rajaguru et al., 1985). In the Philippines, dried filter press mud (6.6% crude protein) was fed at 10% in poultry rations (Abrigo et al., 1986).
Press mud has a chemical composition similar to that of cattle dung, which is a very common fish pond fertilizer in India. When added to the ponds of common carp (Cyprinus carpio), 10 t/ha of press mud were found to be optimal for fish growth and survival. A significant effect of press mud on carcass protein was also observed. Otherwise organoleptic quality of both raw flesh and cooked meat of carp was not affected by the addition of press mud (Keshavanath et al., 2005).
In China, a carp and dace feed ingredient has been produced from fodder yeast grown on a substrate of hydrolysed bagacillo (waste from paper manufacture from sugarcane bagasse) and filter press mud (replacing up to 2/3 of wheat bran). This ingredient replaced up to 60% of the control feed and increased growth performances (Yu, 1990).
Sugarcane filter-press mud
Sugarcane rotary-filter mud
Ether extract % DM 10.9 1
DE growing pig MJ/kg DM 11.6 *
Göhl, 1970
Phosphorus g/kg DM 11.1 1
Schulthess, 1967
Abrigo, C.S. ; Gerpacio, A. L., 1986. No title. Research at Los Banos, 6 (4): 25-26
Budeppa, H. B. ; Reddy, B. S. C. ; Suresh, B. N., 2009. Screening sugarcane press mud as a source of minerals. Indian Vet. J., 86 (3): 323
Chen, J. C. P. ; Chou, Chung-Chi, 1993. Cane sugar handbook: a manual for cane sugar manufacturers and their chemists. John Wiley and Sons, 1090 p.
FAO, 2011. FAOSTAT. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Göhl, B., 1970. Animal feed from local products and by-products in the British Caribbean. Rome, FAO. AGA/Misc/70/25
Hugot E., 1986. Handbook of cane sugar engineering. 3rd ed. Elsevier (translated by G. H. Jenkins)
Keshavanath, P. ; Shivanna; Gangadhara, B., 2005. Evaluation of sugarcane by-product pressmud as a manure in carp culture. Bioresource Technol., 97 (4): 628-634
Lall, D. ; Prasad, T., 1989. Compositional quality of certain unconventional calcium and phosphorus sources in India for use as mineral supplements for livestock. Anim. Feed Sci. Technol., 23 (4): 343-348
LeGrand, F., 1979. No title. Sugar, February 1979, p. 19-22
Monroy, O. ; Torres, F. ; Viniegra, G., 1980. Perspectives on the integration of livestock production and the small scale sugar industry. Trop. Anim. Prod., 5 (2): 96-106
Nasir, N. M., 2006. Better Management Practices for cotton and sugarcane. WWF - Pakistan, Ferozepur Road, Lahore - 54600, Pakistan
Perez, R., 1990. Intensive livestock production systems based on local resources in Cuba. In: Developing World Agriculture. Speedy, A.W. (ed.), Grosvenor Press International, London. pp. 230-237
Rajaguru, A. S. B. ; Ravindran, V., 1985. Metabolisable energy values for growing chicks of some feedstuffs from Sri Lanka. J. Sci. Food Agric., 36 (1): 1057-1064
Rodriguez, V. ; Gonzalez, S., 1973. The use of filter cake mud in integral diets for milk production. Cuban J. Agric. Sci., 7 (1): 29-32
Schulthess, M., 1967. Unpublished data. Unknown source
van der Poel, P. W. ; Schiweck, H. ; Schwartz, T., 1998. Sugar technology. Beet and cane sugar manufacture. Verlag Dr. Albert Martens KG, Berlin, 1005 p.
Yu, B. G., 1990. Protein feed granules from bagacillo for fish farming. Sugar y Azúcar, 85 (11): 30-40
Tran G., 2015. Sugarcane press mud. Feedipedia, a programme by INRAE, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. https://www.feedipedia.org/node/563 Last updated on May 27, 2015, 18:02
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Finding Zachariah T. Scott
I was in the process of doing a random search on Margaret’s father, Daniel Olinger, when my spelling accident occurred. I typed in “’Daniel Ohlinger’ Armstrong Co. PA” and hit enter for my Google search. As soon as I did it, I realized that I had misspelled Olinger and was ready to start over when a single item came up in the results. The word “GASTOWN” in the description caught my eye. Gastown is less than three miles from Elderton and many of the Olingers are buried in the small cemetery there. The entry was a transcription of records for the Reformed and Lutheran Churches in Gastown with baptismal entries from 24 September 1840 through 26 January 1889. I was pretty excited about the record as it might document the birth or baptism of Margaret who was born in 1842, so I began to skim the pages looking for Olinger/Ohlinger. The pages had been translated from the original German, so I expected some spelling variations and possibly even different names based on the German version. I did not find a record for Margaret, but what I did find on page 3 of the transcript was a baptism record that stunned me:
Zacharia b. 2 Dec. 1842, Bapt. 16 Sept. 1844,
Parents: Polly Anthony,
Declared Father: James Scott,
Sponsor: John Anthony 1
Could it be as simple as an illegitimate child? The birth date was only a day off from his tombstone and the date listed on his death record. But how many children named Zachariah could have been born in the opening days of December 1842 in the Elderton/Gastown area? More importantly, how many Zachariahs could there be with a declared father named Scott?
According to the index, this was the only Scott listed in the record, but I still went through every page and looked at every name. I marked all the Anthonys and found that John A. Anthony and his wife Phebia had two children baptized in the church in 1848 and 1849 respectively. Based on their ages, it is probable that John was a brother or a cousin to Polly. These were the only baptismal records with the surname of Anthony.
On Ancestry, I did an advanced search for Zachariah, born 1842, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, with a mother named Polly. I was rewarded with Zachariah and Polly Smail on the 1850 census in Plumcreek Township. This was the same family I had looked at previously, but now the possibility that my Zachariah Scott and this Zachariah Smail could be one and the same, had “legs.” The household consisted of:
George Smail, age 25, a farmer born in PA
Polly, age 28, PA
Zachariah, age 10, PA, attending school
Elisa Jane, age 2
Canann, age 6 mo. Female2
The 1860 census placed the family in Cowanshannock Township, which abuts the northern end of Plumcreek Township. The family now consisted of:
George Smail, age 40
Mary, 26
Zacharias, 17
Eliza J., 15
Catharine A., 9
Margaret, 8
James, 5
Mary, 4
Back in the church records I looked for Smails and quickly found them under the German spelling of Schmehl. There was a baptismal record on page 5 for Elisa Jane, born 27 July 1848, baptized 16 October 1848, parents George Schmehl and wife Polly. This entry is a mere dozen entries below the entry of John A. and Phebia Anthony’s first child, Elisabeth Anna. Catharine’s 11 December 1849 birth and 4 May 1851 baptism are recorded on page 7 with the parents listed as George Schmehl and wife Maria. Since Polly is a pet name for Mary, I had no trouble accepting that this was the same woman using the more mature name of Mary in the census records and being referred to as Maria in the German church record.
I spent the next couple of weeks trying every search method that I could think of to locate records for Zachariah Smail after 1860, but it seems that Zachariah Smail disappeared at the same time Zachariah Scott appeared. I have not found Zachariah Smail on any census record, burial, or cemetery record, nor did he enlist in the military or die in the Civil War. There are no tax or draft records for him in the appropriate places or times. I conducted the same searches for Zachariah Anthony – he does not exist beyond the church record of his baptism.
1. Gastown Reformed and Lutheran Churches (Gastown, Pennsylvania, Armstrong County), Combined Church Records, “Church Book of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches of Plumcreek,” Baptism Zachariah Scott p3; digital images, Candy McCain, U S. GenWeb (http://files.usgwarchives.org/pa/armstrong/church : accessed 10 Jul 2008).
2. 1850 U.S. census, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Plumcreek Twp, p. 354, dwelling 291, family 291, Zachariah Smail; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.Ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 749.
3. 1860 U.S. census, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Cowanshannock, p. 124, dwelling 1325, family 1325, Zachariah Smail; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.Ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 1069.
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Ms. Washburn said there was very little transparency into the mall’s finances for bond investors to look at so it was difficult to obtain an accurate picture of its situation. “The disclosure is very poor,” she said.
Investors are also watching a $27 million debt payment that is due next month.
When asked whether the debt payment would be made, Mr. Ghermezian said, “We are working with our lenders on a regular basis to put a plan in place that allows the center to continue to flourish.” American Dream is also working out other payments, including those to East Rutherford, he said.
“Yes, there’s some money that is owed,” he said. “But again, not unlike any other developer in the country that has had their projects shut down across the board, we need to work as true partners with the municipalities, with lenders, with tenants, to make sure everyone is taking a fair position and fair share in how to manage this pandemic.”
Mr. Ghermezian said that Triple Five still intended to build out “a couple million more square feet” in the Meadowlands, with plans in place for a convention center and roughly 3,000 to 3,500 hotel rooms. The firm anticipates that once tourism recovers, people, especially families, visiting New York would stay at American Dream before traveling into the city.
Triple Five, which is named for three generations of the Ghermezian family and its five founders, is also continuing to pursue a similarly ambitious mall project in Miami, though perhaps at a slower pace than it did before Covid-19, Mr. Ghermezian said. While he acknowledged the challenges facing shopping centers, he said that projects like American Dream stood apart from typical malls and stores.
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Darkover is the planet giving its name to the Darkover series of science fiction-fantasy novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958.[1] According to the novels, Darkover is the only habitable planet of seven orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman.
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4.3 Cralmac
4.4 Forge-Folk
4.5 Kyrri
4.6 Trailmen
4.7 Ya-men
5.1 The Comyn
5.2 Commoners
5.3 The Renunciates
6 Laran
6.1 Matrix stones
6.2 Towers
6.3 Threshold sickness
6.4 The Overworld
6.5 Cherilly's Law
6.6 Matrix weapons
6.6.1 Clingfire
6.6.2 Bonewater dust
6.6.3 The Spell Sword
6.6.4 The Sword of Aldones
6.6.5 The Sword of Hastur
6.6.6 Sharra
7.2 Laws and traditions
7.2.1 The Compact
7.2.2 Knife exchange ritual
7.3 Dress
7.4 Relations between the sexes
7.5 Various customs and music
7.5.1 Music
7.5.2 Dancing
7.6 Religious traditions of Darkover
8.1 Kireseth
8.2 Resin Tree
8.3 Spicebush
8.4 Rhowyn
8.5 Fiberpods
8.6 Herbs and Vegetables
8.7 Mushrooms
9.1 Horse
9.2 Butterfly
9.3 Hawks and Vultures
9.4 Chervine
9.5 Rabbithorn
9.6 Ice-Rabbit
9.7 Scorpion Ant
9.8 Banshee
9.9 Dragon
The Cottman stellar system[edit]
Bradley describes Cottman's Star as a red giant, around which seven planets orbit. Cottman IV, known to its inhabitants as Darkover, is the only habitable planet. The three inner planets and two outer planets are not habitable. Cottman V is an ice planet that while not toxic to humans, cannot naturally support a self-sustaining human population.[2]
Like Cottman V, Darkover is a planet stuck in a permanent ice age. Only one small equatorial strip of its single smallish continent is warm enough to support limited agriculture, fishing, and livestock. Similar in size to Earth, Darkover has a lower gravity due to its relative lack of metals; it also has a higher percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere. The planet's period of rotation is 28 hours (Star of Danger, Chapter 2). One Darkover year is roughly equal to fifteen Earth months.
Darkover weather and geography[edit]
Darkover's weather is affected by two major forces:
A huge mountain range called "The Wall Around the World" which reaches a height of 9,000 meters above sea level. This mountain range has the cooling effect of a third pole and has set the angle of Darkover's axis of rotation to be more extreme than that of Earth's which causes an extreme fluctuation between summer and winter temperatures in its equatorial region.
Unlike the Earth, which has only one natural satellite, Darkover has four moons, each a different color, which affect tidal forces and weather patterns. These are Liriel, Kyrrdis, Idriel, and Mormallor. It is thought that Mormallor may have been a passing asteroid that was captured by Darkover's gravity.
A map of the habitable part of Darkover showing major settlements and landforms (Larger detailed version)
The planet is dominated by polar icecaps and glaciers that cover most of its surface. The habitable area, just a few degrees north of the equator, joins the northern polar icecap on its northern and eastern side. Glaciers and impassible mountains (The Wall Around the World) prevent travel outside of the habitable lands. Darkover's nominally temperate continental zone, which borders the open water of the planet's ocean, is nevertheless subject to severe winter weather, and a warm day in summer is rare.
The temperate portion of the continent is dominated by evergreen forests that grow in the mountain foothills. These trees contain a flammable resin which contributes to frequent forest fires during the warmer months. Further, southwest from the forests are Darkover's highlands, plains, salt marshes and arable river valleys. On the continent's far western side is another mountain range called "The Hellers" and a high elevation cold desert plateau called "The Dry Towns".
Multiple conflicting attempts have been made at producing a map of Darkover. There was a map in The Heritage of Hastur (1975) that Bradley repudiated in a fan newsletter in 1978, saying, "The map in HH was fortunately inaccurate enough to be ignored."[3] In any event, it does not match the Speakman map that illustrates this article. Thorsten Renk's attempt at mapping Darkover based on the descriptions of journeys provided in several of the books (starting with Darkover Landfall and ending with The Heritage of Hastur) produced a third map that does not match the others. Renk is probably correct when he says that Bradley appears to have a mental model when she writes, but not a map in the ordinary sense.[4]
Some cities or locations on the map are associated with the seven Domains: Hastur with the Hasturs; Armida with the Altons; Ardais with the Ardais; Serrais with the Ridenow; and Aldaran with the Aldarans. In Traitor's Sun, Chapter 3, the Domain of Elhalyn is described as stretching "from the west side of the Lake of Hali to the Sea of Dalereuth"; this is not on the map, nor is the Aillard Domain. Other names on the map are Towers: Hali, where the Tower was destroyed, but its burnt rubble and a small chapel, the Rhu Fead, remain; Arilinn; Dalereuth; and Neskaya. Thendara is the location of the Comyn Castle and its Tower, which was destroyed in Exile's Song, as well as the main Terran spaceport and administrative offices. Another Terran spaceport is at Caer Donn. Nevarsin is a retreat and a center of learning administered by the monks of St. Valentine of the Snows, a monastery founded by Father Valentine following a tragic event in Darkover Landfall. Storn is a castle (located on Storn Heights) and the Storn family was important in Stormqueen! and The Winds of Darkover. Shainsa is the chief of the Dry Towns and figures significantly in The Shattered Chain. The name Neskaya is derived from "New Skye," the first settlement, near the place where the original colonizing ship crashed.
Geology[edit]
Darkover is poor in metals. Gold and silver are known but not in any quantity, and the most valuable metal is copper. Wealthy women have "butterfly clasps" for their hair made of copper; poorer women must make do with something fashioned of leather and wood. Iron is more common, but very valuable because it is used for swords and horseshoes. In City of Sorcery, Chapter 1, a man locks up his market stall, and the yet unnamed narrator, a Terran woman in Darkovan clothing, thinks he is prosperous, because "He can afford a Terran metal lock." Since some men carry swords, and most men and many women carry knives, presumably made of iron, this seems to be somewhat contradictory. Perhaps it is the Terran craftsmanship and technology, not the metal, that makes the lock valuable.
In The Bloody Sun. Chapter 9, the matrix workers at Ariliin agree to do a geological survey using their powers, to forestall a survey that otherwise would be done by the Terrans. They are to search for "tin, copper, silver, iron, tungsten" and for "fuels, for sulfur, hydrocarbons, chemicals[.]" The purpose is to prevent Terrans and their "infernal machines" from spreading across Darkover. They succeed in locating mineral deposits and marking them on maps (ironically, maps created using the assistance of Terran surveys), but the effort, at first successful, is abandoned.
The most important mineral on Darkover is the matrix stone or starstone, a jewel that the first colonists discover in Darkover Landfall. It has a deep blue color, and large ones are rare. Its composition is not known by anyone, and in fact it is theorized by some that it is a form of life. This jewel provides a focus and a way to magnify laran.
Native sapient Darkover species[edit]
Bradley's fictional world is populated with an intelligent species, the Chieri, already ancient and in decline when the human colonists arrive. As the series developed, she introduced three other sapient native species—the Trailmen, Forge-Folk, and Catmen—as well as two genetically engineered sapient species—the Cralmac and Kyrri. One additional species is also frequently mentioned, the Ya-men, but Bradley leaves ambiguous the question of whether these creatures are sapient or not.
Catmen[edit]
The Catmen are the primary antagonists in The Spell Sword and feature in a number of the short stories. In The Spell Sword, Bradley describes them as carrying short, curved swords, capable of coordinating attacks against the humans, and able to use laran and starstones. The Catmen also featured prominently in several of the short stories, including David Heydt's I'm a Big Cat Now from Towers of Darkover; Linda Frankel and Paula Crunk's Blood Hunt from The Other Side of the Mirror; and Judith Sampson's To Serve Kihar from Domains of Darkover.
Chieri[edit]
The Chieri are a race of six-fingered, tall, telepathic humanoids who have no permanent gender.[5] Extremely long-lived, with life-spans reaching into the tens of thousands of years, they are described as gray or golden-eyed and with long, silvery-white hair. They will change sexes as the situation warrants for mating purposes. The World Wreckers describes the Chieri as the last, dying remnants of a space-traveling people whose abilities have dwindled with their fertility and ambition.[6]
Chieri and humans are similar biologically and are able to interbreed. These hybrids exhibit some of the Chieri characteristics of coloring and physiology. They also have psychic gifts, and their descendants become the Comyn. In Star of Danger, the Chieri who aids Kennard Alton and Larry Montray, tells them that the Chieri share common ancestors with the Trailmen and the Kyrri, though not with the Terrans.[7]
The Chieri feature prominently in The World Wreckers, The Planet Savers, Star of Danger, and in the long-lived, half-human/half-Chieri characters, Robert Kadarin and Thyra Scott, who appear in The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile.
Cralmac[edit]
The Cralmac are semi-intelligent beings, artificially bred by humans during the Ages of Chaos, from Trailmen altered with human DNA.[8] They usually feature in the Darkovan novels as the servants of laranzu'in working in the towers, with the explanation that theirs is the only touch humans in the hyper-sensitive state of the matrix worker can bear.
The Cralmac feature prominently in Patricia B. Cirone's Victory's Cost from Towers of Darkover.
Forge-Folk[edit]
The Forge-Folk are not particularly well defined, though they are described as about the same height and build as the Trailmen. Walter Breen's The Darkover Concordance describes them as a cross between humans and non-humans, who speak an ancient variant of the Hellers dialect.[9] They are Darkover's primary miners and metalworkers. The Forge Folk worship the Sharra matrix, and appear to be the only creatures on Darkover capable of handling Sharra without causing catastrophe.
The Forge-Folk feature prominently in the conclusion of The Winds of Darkover, and are mentioned in several of the Sharra stories.
Kyrri[edit]
The Kyrri are humanoid bipeds with grey or silver fur, simian faces and glowing green (or dark) eyes. Perhaps they are the result of genetic engineering during the Ages of Chaos, or they may be a native species from the pre-history of Darkover. In Sharra's Exile, Book Two, Chapter 5, Regis Hastur speculates that even tower workers do not know the origins of the Kyrri.
Kyrri generate a bioelectric field and sometimes give painful but non-lethal electric shocks when excited or threatened. The Kyrri appear in The Bloody Sun, Star of Danger, and The Sword of Aldones, and also in Sharra's Exile, the replacement for the latter book. They are used primarily as servants in the Towers because they can pass through the barriers that non-telepathic humans cannot. In The Bloody Sun, one is a servant in the Alton townhouse in Thendara.[10] Although the Kyrri can understand human speech, they do not speak themselves, and in Sharra's Exile Regis Hastur wonders how the message he gave one would be delivered.
Trailmen[edit]
The Trailmen are described as social herbivores who dwell in arboreal communities and live in extended family clans. Unattached females form bands of ronin who wander the forests attacking travelers. These Trailmen-human cause the cross-species transmission of a 48-year cyclic illness known as Trailmen's Fever, which is mild in Trailmen and often fatal in humans.[5] The Chieri call the Trailmen a word that means "The Little Brothers Who Are Not Wise."
The Trailmen feature prominently in the novels, The Planet Savers and Star of Danger, and in Diana L. Paxson's short story, The Place Between, from Snows of Darkover.
Ya-men[edit]
The Ya-men are a mountain-dwelling bird-like race, of questionable intelligence, who are susceptible to the effects of "ghost winds".[11][12] Though they are mentioned as a background element in many of the books, the Ya-men are a critical plot element in Two to Conquer, The Winds of Darkover, and Cynthia McQuillin's The Forest from The Keeper's Price.
In A Darkover Retrospective, Bradley says, "... I have no idea what the Ya-Men were — or are — like. I only know that they are very terrible indeed, with plumes and talons and shrill yelping cries ..." This is a conscious decision; she thinks that monsters should not be described in too much detail, lest they lose their horror.[13]
Humans[edit]
The Comyn[edit]
Comyn is the term used for aristocratic members of Darkover society who are gifted with the psychic abilities commonly called laran. Comyn women may be referred to as Comynara, especially by commoners.
The Comyn are the surviving laran-gifted families of Darkover who are ruling at the time of recontact with the Terran Empire. It is suggested in Darkover Landfall that they are the descendants of human-chieri pairings, who have learned to use native matrix stones to focus their laran powers. The Comyn, however, have their own mythology, recited in the Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda: they are the descendants of Hastur, son of Aldones, Lord of Light, who fell to earth, fell in love with Cassilda, and (perhaps) became mortal. Cassilda bore Hastur seven sons who founded the seven Domains.
Each Comyn family controls part of Darkover's landmass, known as a Domain, but strategic inter-marriage and feudal land issues result in fluctuating domain borders. Each Comyn family has a gift — a family-specific laran power, though in reality, not every member of the family has the family gift. Also, a member of a family may have another family's gift, in whole or in part. The gifts may skip generations. Of particular note is that twins often have differing amounts of the family gifts. One twin usually has more of the gifts than does the other twin.
Walter Breen cites Christopher Gibson for the observation that comyn is derived from the Gaelic word, comhionnan, meaning equal, and appears to refer to the communal origins of Darkover.
A Comyn family frequently fosters a child from another Comyn family, at least for a few years. This results in a Comyn adult having "foster-brothers" and "foster-sisters." One example of this is Regis Hastur and Lew Alton. Regis lived at Armida during part of his childhood.
The Comyn families are:
Hastur of Hastur
Gift: Living matrix
Device: A silver tree on a blue background
Colors: Blue and silver
Other names associated with this domain: Di Asturien, Syrtis
Hastur of Elhalyn
Gift: Ability to see all possible outcomes from every decision or choice. This gift can be very useful if it can be controlled. It awakens in Regis Hastur in The Planet Savers and he nearly goes mad.
Device: A crowned silver tree on a blue background
The old line of Elhalyn died out, and the Hastur domain divided to re-establish it (The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 18).
Gift: Ability to force rapport; "command voice" to force a person to obey
Device: An eagle perched upon a tor
Colors: Green and black
Other names associated with this domain: Castamir, Lanart, Leynier
Ardais
Gift: Catalyst telepathy (awakens laran that is latent in a person, who may not realize that he has it)
Device: A hawk (The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 18).
Colors: Black and silver
Pronunciation: In Thendara House, Jaelle says the name is pronounced are-dayze (pg 96)
Aillard
Gift: Never mentioned in any of Bradley's novels and short stories, except that it manifests only in women. In the Clingfire Trilogy, it is mentioned that Aillard males capitalized on their recessive Aillard Gift, making them better Keepers in a working circle of telepaths. According to The Darkover Concordance, the Aillard gift is extinct.
Device: Red and grey feathers (The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 18).
Colors: Red and grey
Other names associated with this domain: Lindir
The leadership or rule of this domain runs in the female line.
Pronunciation: Ale-lard, with a long "A" in the first syllable and the accent on the second.[14]
Aldaran
Gift: Ability to see into the future, sometimes to see multiple future possibilities; weather forecasting and ability to change the weather or control winds.
Device: A two-headed eagle
Colors: Red and black
Other names associated with this domain: Darriell, Delleray, Hammerfell, MacAran, Rockraven, Scathfell, Storn
Notable for: Aldaran is not a formal member of the Comyn Council, because they never ratified the Compact, and were the first domain to interact with the Terrans. In the early Ages of Chaos, Aldaran was responsible for The Cataclysm, the destruction of the original Hali tower using a laran weapon that created the heavier-than-air, cloud-filled, Hali Lake.[15]
Ridenow of Serrais
Gift: Empathy and the ability to sense and communicate with non-human intelligences
Colors: Green and gold
Notable for: During the Ages of Chaos, Serrais was overrun by a Dry Town clan, the Ridenow, who intermarried with the Serrais women (probably against their will). This rejuvenated the strain, and allowed the Serrais gift to survive in the Ridenow bloodline.[16]
Commoners[edit]
Commoners are the population of Darkover that are not members of a Comyn clan or family. In general, they are portrayed as less educated than the Comyn, hard-working, shrewd and honorable, although some are members of bandit gangs. Some of them are fairly wealthy, owning lands and raising crops or animals, or having successful businesses, such as tailoring and dressmaking, leatherworking and other crafts, milling and cheesemaking, or inn-keeping. They form their own councils and petition the Comyn for changes in policy or for assistance.
In The Bloody Sun, Chapter 9, a group of Darkovans calling themselves the Pan-Darkovan Syndicate meets with Danvan Hastur and the members of the Arilinn Tower, and raises objections to the decision of the Comyn to limit trade and imports from the Terran Empire. Their spokesperson, Valdrin of Carthon, says they want some of the advantages that come with being a part of the Empire. Hastur states that the decision of the Comyn was to preserve the Darkovan way of life and not become another satellite state of the Empire. Valdrin counters that Terran technology needs to be adopted since Darkover's matrix technology has been declining and Terran technology can replace it, or Darkover might sink into another Age of Chaos. This is a major plot point, as Arilinn Tower then engages to do a mining survey faster and better than the Terrans.
The Renunciates[edit]
In the introduction to Free Amazons of Darkover, Bradley wrote that her Renunciates have become "the most attractive and controversial of my creations." The Guild of Oath-Bound Renunciates, called Free Amazons and com'hi letzii in earlier books, are women who have opted out of Darkover's traditional gender-based roles, including marriage, obligations to clan, and the expectation of male protection.[17] In later books, "Free Amazons" is considered to be a misnomer and insulting or opprobrious, but the Renunciates themselves are tolerant of those who use "Free Amazons" out of ignorance.
The origins of this guild during the Hundred Kingdoms era are described in Two to Conquer as the merger between the Sisterhood of the Sword, a military-mercenary guild, and the Priestesses of Avarra, a cloistered order that offered medical and other care to women, primarily abused women. Towards the end of Two to Conquer, Carlina di Asturien comes to believe that the two guilds need to work together for the benefit of all women on Darkover. Bradley acknowledged a Patricia Matthews fan story as the origin of the Sisterhood of the Sword, and described the Priesthood of Avarra as a counterforce.[18]
Bradley noted that most of the fan fiction she received was inspired by the Renunciates, and that she had met individuals who had taken Renunciate-style names or were attempting to live in women's communes inspired by the Renunciate guildhouses.[18]
A Renunciate takes an oath, and thereafter is known only by her first name and the name of her mother, with the connecting word "n'ha", meaning "daughter of." The woman who administers the oath is called her "oath-mother." Magdalene Lorne takes the name Margali n'ha Ysabet: Margali is a Darkovan version of her Terran name, Magdalene (she is also called Magda), and her mother's name was Elizabeth. Camilla, born Elorie Lindir, takes the name Camilla n'ha Kyria, because her mother was Kyria Aillard. Had she been legitimate or acknowledged as nedestro, her name might have been Elorie Hastur.
Laran[edit]
Laran is the Darkovan word for telepathic talent and the talents associated with it: telekinesis, precognition, a "sixth sense", empathy, teleportation, and others. It is the distinguishing feature of the people of Darkover. Although it appears mostly in Comyn, others may have it. It appears mostly in people who have red hair, and generally manifests itself at the time of puberty. Elorie Ardais, in The Bloody Sun, Chapter 7, says, "Everyone alive has some small degree of laran." Damon Ridenow, in The Spell Sword, Chapter 6, reflects on the odd fact that Andrew Carr, a Terran, has laran, and can telepathically be in touch with Callista when he and Callista's twin sister cannot:
In the telepath caste, it was often the accident of possessing laran, the specific telepath Gift, which determined how close a relationship would come. Caste, family, social position, all these became irrelevant compared to that one compelling fact; one had, or one did not, that inborn power, and in consequence one was stranger or kinfolk. By that criterion alone, the most important one on Darkover, Andrew Carr was one of them, and the fact that he was an Earthman was a small random fact without any real importance.
Being telepathically connected to another is called being "in rapport."
Elizabeth Mackintosh, a character in the novel Rediscovery, suggests the Darkovan language appears to be derived from old Terran languages. She proposes a genetic basis for the development of laran on Darkover, noting that the original population of the colony derived overwhelmingly from north-west Europe (the Scottish highlands, Ireland and the Basque country) where a belief in supernatural abilities such as the second sight is common, and red hair is common as well.
Matrix stones[edit]
A matrix jewel or "starstone" provides a focus and a way to magnify laran. In Darkover Landfall, a chieri gives one to his human lover so she can call on him if necessary. A matrix stone can be attuned to one person, who will always carry it with him and cannot lose it because he always knows where it is. If it is forcibly removed from him, he may go into shock and die. As related in The Bloody Sun, a small matrix stone can be attuned to a person and used as a lock on a box, and only the person to whom the matrix stone is attuned will be able to open the box.
Most persons with laran have a matrix stone that they carry in a small bag or pouch made of silk or leather, which are "insulators." Usually, the pouch is worn around the neck as a pendant.
In general, the larger the stone, the more it can amplify the user's laran. Matrix stones can be used to power aircraft or make a person invisible (The Bloody Sun). Trained matrix mechanics can create a "screen" by placing several jewels within glass in a pattern that they determine on an ad hoc basis, depending on the purpose of the screen. This can magnify telepathic powers even more. A screen cannot be managed by a single matrix user. The geological survey conducted The Bloody Sun is accomplished by making and using such a screen; in Sharra's Exile and Two To Conquer, a screen is used to teleport a person from another star system.
In Sharra's Exile, Book Two, Chapter 8, the Keeper Ashara explains that matrix mechanics, that is, the scientific use of laran amplified by matrix stones, is the first of the non-causal sciences. [note 1]
Towers[edit]
The Towers are the centers of the use of laran and schools for those who are learning to use their laran. A designated person is always on duty ("in the relays") to exchange news and requests for help telepathically with other Towers. At least once, the Terrans wonder how news travels so fast on Darkover. Towers are, in theory, independent of any caste discrimination or political influence. Each Tower should have a Keeper, a person to direct both Tower policy and the power of the laran users when they gather together in rapport to work. The Keeper of Arilinn is considered the second most-powerful person on Darkover, after the Hastur regent.
One who goes to a Tower for training advances through degrees of competence: first Monitor, then levels of Mechanic. Each degree requires an oath to do no harm and not abuse laran. First, a trainee learns to set up "barriers" to keep his thoughts from being read against his will, and to keep from "broadcasting" his thoughts and feelings. The next stage of training involves learning how to read one's own physiological symptoms such as heartbeat, respiration and body temperature, and (with permission) to read those of others. Once the trainee is proficient at this, he is qualified to "monitor" other laran workers to ensure that they are not in danger when working, and takes the Monitor's Oath, with the approval of the members of the Tower. A person who is deemed morally or otherwise unfit to work with laran will not be allowed to take the oath and will be expelled from the tower without any more training. This apparently happened to Dyan Ardais.
A matrix Mechanic learns to manipulate matter and energy using his laran and matrix stone, and to make and use tools that focus and augment laran. In The Bloody Sun Jeff Kerwin, just beginning his training as a mechanic, notices that the hinge on a door is beginning to rust, and, taking out his matrix, he stops it. Greater skill is required to perform tasks such as refining metals or causing rain to fight a forest fire. Despite all the things that can be done with laran, it is not wise to use it for everything; in The Bloody Sun Rannirl, a Level 2 Mechanic, repairs a leaky roof at Arilinn by climbing onto the roof with materials and tools.
The highest degree is Keeper, but generally women are trained for this arduous position from a young age. Not many young women want to undergo this. A Keeper is the center of a group of laran workers, who accepts the energy ("energons") that they generate and directs it.
There are several Towers. In World Wreckers it is mentioned that there are nine Towers, but only seven Towers are ever named: Arilinn, Comyn Tower, Corandolis, Dalereuth, Hali, Neskaya, and Tramontana. Most of the named towers can be located. Arilinn tower is close to Arilinn town in the Plains of Arilinn across the Venza Hills from Thendara. Comyn tower is in Thendara. Dalereuth Tower is far south at the coast. Hali Tower was north of Thendara at the shore of Lake Hali. Neskaya Tower is in the south-eastern foothills of the Kilghard Hills. Tramontana tower is in the Hellers, about a day or more west of Aldaran. Journeys to Neskaya and Arilinn are described and they appear on the map.
Only the location of Corandolis is never revealed. As the location of the other Towers are known and can be connected with a certain Domain, an educated guess about the location of Corandolis can be made; Elhalyn had Hali right at the lakeshore, Neskaya is less than a day from both Serrais and Armida, Tramontana is close to Caer Donn, Dalereuth is close to Valeron and thus serves Aillard, and both the Comyn Tower and Arilinn would be accessible from the various points of the Hastur Domain. Which leaves Ardais alone without access to a Tower, thus we can guess that Corandolis Tower is in the Hellers somewhere beyond Scaravel about a day from Ardais. Of the location of the remaining two unnamed Towers we have no knowledge.
The importance of the Towers diminished after the Ages of Chaos and by the time the Terrans arrive, there were not enough trained telepaths for all of them to function, and in addition some of the independent Towers did not have a Keeper. Hali Tower was destroyed during the Ages of Chaos. So was Neskaya, but it was rebuilt. Comyn Tower, attached to Comyn Castle in Thendara, was for centuries the home of the Keeper Ashara.
In The Spell Sword, Chapter 7, Damon Ridenow realizes that to supervise two untrained telepaths, Andrew Carr and Ellamir Lanart-Alton, he must function as a Keeper. For many years, perhaps not since Varzil the Good, men have not been Keepers. Damon's realization leads to the formation of The Forbidden Tower and eventually, a civil war among the Comyn.
Afterwards, as related in The Bloody Sun, there are independent matrix workers, not attached to a Tower or a Domain. They perform various services, such as making the matrix locks described above. However, when Jeff Kerwin, possessing his mother's matrix, queries a pair of independent matrix workers about it, they refuse to tell him anything.
Threshold sickness[edit]
Some of the Comyn, as they enter puberty and their laran begins to awaken, have a bad reaction called "threshold sickness." Symptoms are headache, disorientation, nausea, fever and a lack of desire for food. This is sometimes blamed on the breeding programs that fixed the laran Gifts in the Comyn families during the Ages of Chaos. In a severe case, the person may die. More frequently, the afflicted young man or woman must be confined and treated by an experienced laran worker until he or she recovers. Some Comyn have only a slight case of threshold sickness. Others, for example, Cleindori, have had telepathic abilities since they were children and are unaffected.
The Overworld[edit]
The Overworld is a laran representation of the real world. A person with laran, especially when using a matrix, can travel at great speeds in the Overworld and communicate as if face-to-face with others who are there. In The Spell Sword, Damon Ridenow searches for Callista Leynier, who is missing, in the Overworld, and encounters a part of the Overworld that is blocked off by a powerful laran presence. It seems likely that Callista is within the inaccessible area. In Exile's Song Marguerida Alton destroys the representation of Comyn Tower in the Overworld that Ashara has maintained for hundreds of years to stay alive. Later she learns that she has destroyed the real Comyn Tower, part of Comyn Castle, as well.
In the Overworld, one may see sleepers dreaming or people wandering aimlessly and lost. When Cleindori (Dorilys Aillard) is a child, she joins a matrix circle of her relatives in the Overworld, and after they tell her that she is too young to be doing that, they ask, "How did you get here?" She replies that she has always been able to get here, and that she used to visit her baby sister here before she was born. The Overworld is where people, at least some people, go after death. In Exile's Song, Chapter 22, Marguerida Alton visits the Overworld again, and meets her mentor in musical studies, Ivor Davidson, who is deceased. He is listening to "the music of the spheres."
In The Forbidden Tower, Damon Ridenow explores "levels" of the Overworld, going back in time to try to discover lost secrets. He calls this "Timesearch." He encounters Varzil the Good from the distant past, who greets him as a kinsman (they are both Ridenow) and warns him that what he is attempting is dangerous.
Cherilly's Law[edit]
This is the first law of matrix mechanics, mentioned in Sharra's Exile, Book Two, Chapter 8, and elsewhere. It states that everything in the universe has one and only one exact duplicate, somewhere in space and time, except a matrix stone. Only matrix stones are each wholly unique, and any attempt to duplicate a matrix will destroy it and the attempted duplicate.
Matrix weapons[edit]
In the Ages of Chaos and the Hundred Kingdoms, matrix workers, using screens to amplify their powers, devised powerful weapons of war. In The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 6, they are described as "-- fire-forms, and wind-creatures to tear down castles and whole walls, and creatures from other dimensions walking abroad in the land -- ". Other matrix workers defended against these weapons. The Compact banned matrix weapons.
Clingfire[edit]
Clingfire is a liquid made by matrix workers that when set afire, keeps burning as long as there is some substance to burn. Clingfire will even burn stone. Evidently it is slowly exhausted or used up as it burns, because it does not simply burn all the way to the center of the planet. Arrows may be dipped in clingfire, ignited and shot, or containers of burning clingfire may be dropped from "aircars" (matrix-powered aerial vehicles). An attack of this nature by many aircars on Aldaran Castle in Stormqueen! was frustrated by Dorilys Aldaran, the titular stormqueen, who blasts them from the sky with lightning.
A huge clingfire attack destroyed the Hali Tower, which led to the adoption of the Compact, which forbids the use of matrix weapons.
Bonewater dust[edit]
Bonewater dust is a substance, possibly radioactive, that is used to render a place uninhabitable for years. It is used against places that are especially hated or to deliver a dose of slow poison to an entire army.
The Spell Sword[edit]
In the novel The Spell Sword Damon Ridenow sets a small matrix stone into the hilt of a sword. He realizes that by doing so he may, in theory, be violating The Compact, and that such matrix weapons are banned. He discovers that although he is no use in actual battle, being a poor swordsman, he can use the sword as a weapon in the Overworld, and thereby assist the soldiers "on the ground." Other swords, with larger matrices, are important weapons that figure in the novels.
The Sword of Aldones[edit]
In Sharra's Exile the Sword of Aldones is called the weapon against Sharra. It is kept in the rhu fead, a small chapel near the site of the destroyed Tower of Hali, and near the place where the Comyn have funerals and inter their own kind. The rhu fead is protected by a barrier that cannot be passed except by Comyn, but the sword itself is behind a barrier that no Comyn can pass. In Sharra's Exile, Lew Alton, with the help of Ashara and a few others, solves this puzzle. Lew is severely wounded by an attack after the sword is recovered, and is about to die when Regis Hastur arrives, more or less by chance, claims the sword and uses it to heal Lew, to the astonishment of the attending doctors. Lew then asks Regis who he is, and Regis says, "Hastur." Hastur was the legendary son of Aldones.
The Sword of Hastur[edit]
This sword is said to be kept in Hastur Castle. It will slay anyone who draws it except in defense of the Hastur Domain.
Sharra[edit]
Sharra is an ancient matrix weapon. In the Winds of Darkover it is simply a large matrix stone, about the size of a child's hand. In The Heritage of Hastur it has been set into the hilt of a sword. Sharra is also called the "Form of Fire." She is worshiped by the Forge-Folk.
Bradley provides multiple explanations for Sharra. In The Sword of Aldones, Sharra is described as a powerful matrix in which an Alton leronis had become trapped eons ago. However, in the rewrite of that book, Sharra's Exile, Bradley describes Sharra as a portal to another dimension, though which a powerful alien energy is able to gain a foothold on Darkover. Breen describes Sharra as an anthropomorphized matrix weapon, left over from the Ages of Chaos.[19] Desideria Leynier, in The Winds of Darkover, uses the Sharra matrix against a group of bandits who have taken over Storn Heights. In The Heritage of Hastur, Marjorie Scott and Lew Alton, drugged and under the influence of Kadarin and Beltran Aldaran, raise the Form of Fire and destroy the Terran spaceport of Caer Donn. The Terrans then finally realize the meaning of the Compact, and its necessity.
In The Winds of Darkover, Dan Barron, a Terran, has visions of Storn Heights, brought to him by a laran rapport with Brynat Storn. In Chapter 1, he sees Sharra:
In the midst of the flame there was a woman. ... She was almost inhumanly tall and slender, but girlish; she stood bathed in the flame as if standing carelessly under a waterfall ... She looked merry and smiling. ... And then the girlish, merry face wavered and became supernally beautiful with the beauty of a great goddess burning endlessly in the fire, a kneeling woman bound in golden chains. ...
[T]he figure changed, grew, and was, again, the great chained Being, regal, burning, searing her beauty into his heart and brain.
The ancient Keeper of Comyn Tower, Ashara, tries to explain Sharra to Lew Alton, who is, one might say, "possessed" by the Form of Fire after the events in The Heritage of Hastur. Ashara hints that Sharra is actually an extra-dimensional being and the Sharra matrix is used to summon her. She also hints at the reason the matrix was set into a sword:
"What do you think would happen to a person who was killed with such a sword?"
Culture[edit]
Darkovan culture in the Domains is essentially feudal: the Comyn are the nobility and there is a king of Elhalyn lineage. Rarely, an Elhalyn is crowned king and rules, but usually the actual rule of the Domains is entrusted to the Hasturs, since the Elhalyns are considered "unstable." Thus there is a Hastur regent and the ranking male of the Elhalyn domain is given respect but no real power. The seven Domains have lesser family names associated with them, as noted above. All other persons are "commoners" and even if they have laran they probably have no chance of social advancement, although they may obtain tower training and earn respect.
There are two important languages on Darkover: Cahuenga, spoken generally by everyone, and Casta, usually only spoken by the nobility. There are mountain, lowland and regional accents and dialects. Sometimes Bradley attempts to reproduce a dialect with English contractions and spelling. For instance, in Hawkmistress!, Part 3, Chapter 5, Romilly, the protagonist, realizes "with horror" that her mountain accent has crept into her speech when she says, "... I'm nae servant to the lady; if ye' want her fetched and carried for, me lord, ye' can even do it yerself."
There are, in all, nine different languages on Darkover.[20]
Although Darkover is a richly realized and detailed world, the two languages are rarely distinguished in the books. They derive, ultimately, from the two languages spoken by the colonists, as described in Darkover Landfall: Celtic, spoken by the communal colonists, becomes Cahuenga, and Spanish, spoken by the officers and crew of the crashed ship, becomes Casta. The two tongues blend and borrow words from each other. Bradley was not as talented a linguist as Tolkien was, with the ability to invent entire languages and explain their imaginary origins (and indeed, who was?), but the basic vocabulary is quite consistent throughout the books.
For much more information about the languages of Darkover, including a discussion of grammar, examples of translation and lists of words, see the essay by Thorsten Renk.[20]
Laws and traditions[edit]
The Compact[edit]
The Compact forbids any weapon that does not bring its user within reach of the person it is used against. Its intention is to forbid laran weapons, which caused much destruction and loss of life in the Ages of Chaos. The Compact is perhaps the most distinctive and important part of Darkovan society. It was conceived by Varzil the Good and adopted by all the Comyn, except the Aldarans. It ended the Ages of Chaos and the Hundred Kingdoms and brought peace. Because the Aldaran Domain never adopted it, they were excluded from the Comyn Council. The Compact also forbids guns, "blasters" and other Terran weapons, which is a plot point in several books. Swords and knives are the weapons allowed by the Compact. Even a bow and arrow is prohibited, although they can be used for hunting.
Knife exchange ritual[edit]
In The Winds of Darkover, Chapter 3, Lerrys, the foster-son of Valdir, Lord Alton, realizes that Dan Barron has some sort of telepathic ability and that he will have "troubles" on their journey into the mountains, since he has visions of Sharra. Dan has no knife, and Lerrys explains:
"By custom and law here -- a knife or any other weapon must never be lent or given, except between sworn friends or kinfolk. To say 'my knife is yours' is a pledge. It means you will defend the other ..."
Lerrys then gives Dan a knife, and says, "It is yours," instructing Dan to take it and say, "Yours and mine."
Between Darkovan men, each of whom has a knife, the ritual words are said by both of them in turn as they trade knives. Several times in the books, men exchange knives and from that day forward are bredin, notably Regis Hastur and Danilo Syrtis in The Heritage of Hastur and Jeff Kerwin and Rannirl in The Bloody Sun. Renunciates also follow this custom.
Dress[edit]
In The Spell Sword, Andrew Carr arrives at Armida in clothes that are simply no good any more, as Damon Ridenow says. Carr has survived a plane crash and a blizzard with the help of Callista Leynier. Damon obtains the loan of "the hall-steward's holiday suit" for Andrew, which is:
"... a shirt and knee-length under-drawers of coarse linen; over which went suedelike breeches, flared somewhat from knee to ankle; a long-sleeved finely embroidered shirt with wide sleeves gathered in at the wrist; and a leather jerkin. There were knitted stockings that tied at the knee, and over them low felt boots lined with fur."
That outfit is indoor wear. Outdoor wear is described in The Winds of Darkover, when Dan Barron travels on horseback with three Darkovan men:
All three wore loose heavy breeches, falling in flaps over high, carefully-fitted boots, and laced tunic-like shirts in rich, dark colors. Gwynn and Colryn had thick, fur-lined riding-cloaks, and Lerrys a short loose fur jacket with a hood. All three wore short gauntlets, knives in their belts and smaller knives in pockets at the top of their boots; Gwynn had a sword as well, although for riding it was swung across the crupper of his horse. They all had hair cut smoothly below their ears and a variety of amulets and jewelry.
Men generally carry a sword if they can afford one, which is a weapon that complies with the Compact. Comyn families, unless extremely poor, can afford swords, and the male children are trained in sword-play from a young age. Whether they carry a sword or not, men usually carry a knife or two, as described above.
In The Shattered Chain, Chapter 6, there is a detailed description of the dress of women. Writing of Magdalene Lorne, Bradley says:
She wore the ordinary dress of a woman of Thendara: a long, full skirt of heavy cloth, woven in a tartan pattern, a high-necked and long-sleeved tunic, embroidered at the neck, and ankle-high sandals of thin leather. Her hair was long and dark, coiled low on her neck and fastened with the butterfly-shaped clasp that every woman wore in the Domains. Magda's was made of silver, a noblewoman would have worn copper, a poor woman's clasp would have been carved of wood or even leather; but no chaste woman exposed her bare neck in public.
After hanging the clothes up, Magda rubs "their folds with an aromatic mix of spices; it was as important to smell right as to look right ." Magda wears a riding-cloak when she undertakes a journey into the Hellers.
Renunciates who provide bodyguard services or lead expeditions generally wear a long knife, which by law and custom (established by Varzil the Good, who gave the Renunciates their charter) is not as long as a sword. Renunciates who are midwives or prepare food, etc. generally do not carry a weapon. Camilla n'ha Kyria is an exception. Before she became a Renunciate she posed as a man and lived as a mercenary, and she still wears a sword.
Comyn women carry a small dagger for personal protection, or perhaps to use on themselves if they are captured and in danger of rape or some other humiliation. (The Shattered Chain, Chapter 2).
Relations between the sexes[edit]
The Shattered Chain has much information about sexual mores, traditions and prohibitions on Darkover. Also, repeatedly throughout the series, women's thoughts (seldom expressed aloud) are concerned with being "brood mares"; e. g. "I was of no value; the daughters I bore him at risk of my life were of no value; I was nothing but an instrument to give him sons." (Kindra, speaking in The Shattered Chain, Chapter 2). In Darkover Landfall, it is made clear to the colonists by the ship's officers that for the colony to survive, the women must bear as many children as possible, with as many male partners as possible for genetic diversity. This led to women having an inferior social position to men.
In Comyn society, a formal marriage is di catenas (evidently derived from Spanish "de cadenas", meaning "of chains"). In the ceremony, the married couple submit to locked wrist bracelets that are connected with a chain. Later the chain is removed but the symbolic wrist bracelets traditionally remain. In the Dry Towns, a woman remains chained all her life, but to herself. The "bracelets were connected with a long chain, passed through a metal loop on her belt, so that if the woman moved either hand, the other was drawn up tight against the loop on her waist." (The Shattered Chain, Chapter 1).
A less formal marriage is called "a marriage of freemates." This is the typical form of marriage for lower classes, although the Comyn enter into freemate marriages as well. There may or may not be a ceremony of some kind, such as a feast. Renunciates are forbidden by their oath to enter into any other kind of marriage. This sort of marriage can be ended by mutual agreement, although it is not uncommon for it to last for the lives of the partners. In the Hellers, a freemate marriage may be established by mutual agreement and the sharing of "a bed, a meal, and a fireside." Lew Alton and Marjorie Scott observe this tradition in The Heritage of Hastur.
The culture of the Comyn tolerates homosexuality in men and women to some extent. The chieri, from whom the Comyn are descended, change from male to female, or vice versa, when it is appropriate to the individual. Some of the Comyn are permanently neither male nor female in a physical sense. In Sharra's Exile, Chapter 9, after Lew Alton meets his young daughter Marguerida, he learns from Rafael Scott that Thyra, Marguerida's mother:
was ... like the chieri. Emmasca; no one was really sure if she was boy or girl. I can remember her like that, when I was very small, but only a little. Then Kadarin came -- and very soon after, she began to wear women's clothing and think of herself as a woman... that was when we began to call her Thyra... before that, she had another name[.]
The sex-changing chieri drive the plot of The World Wreckers to its conclusion. Bradley needed to deal with the issue of homosexuality to write the book. Bradley claimed that she was the first science fiction author to do this.
Among commoners, male homosexuals are called embredin (evidently derived from bredin) or "sandal-wearers" (chaireth) to mock them or equate them with women.
Female homosexuality is sometimes believed, even by Comyn, to be a characteristic of the Renunciates. In The Shattered Chain, Chapter 5, Lady Jerana Hastur says:
"... I have always heard that the Free Amazons are eager to find pretty young girls whom they can convert to their unnatural way of life, turning them against marriage and motherhood, making them haters of men and lovers of women."
This may be an example of Bradley's ironic social commentary. Everyone except Jerana Hastur is offended by this speech.
Various customs and music[edit]
Darkovans celebrate midsummer and midwinter with gift-giving, feasting and dancing. As noted above, Darkover's weather has extremes. At Midwinter, travel may be impossible, but at Midsummer, there may be days without snow or rain when it is possible for people to gather together and have a celebration.
A typical midsummer gift from a man to a woman is a basket of fruit and flowers, left anonymously at her door. A midwinter gift, when fruit and flowers are unavailable, may be candy and preserved food. Women sometimes leave gifts for men (especially spouses), and Renunciates give seasonal gifts to one another. Members of a family exchange gifts.
At Comyn Castle in Thendara, there is an elaborate celebration on both holidays with tables of food and drink. There is organized social dancing: ring-dances, traditional dances by soloists, and dances with chosen partners.
Music[edit]
The ryll is mentioned many times. It is described as a small harp. It is apparently considered one of the few instruments, maybe the only one, that is suitable for women to play. There are larger harps, a sort of viol, and some wind instruments, but there are no mentions of women playing them.
In Exile's Song, Chapter 3, Marguerida Alton is shown a ryll that (it is later revealed) belonged to her mother, Thyra. This ryll is played with "levers". Music-master Everard can only get a single chord from it, though, and says that none of his students have been able to play it. Marguerida is able to play it and she sings the ballad "The Outlaw" ("Edward"; see below), which Master Everard knows. Marguerida does not know where she learned the song and says that the harp is haunted.
In the same chapter, Marguerida and her teacher observe that the sound holes of stringed Darkovan instruments are star-shaped (later called a "many-pointed star"), and Master Everard is interested to learn that Terrans make them in another shape.
The drone-pipe is apparently similar to the bagpipe, and was used during battles to create a loud noise and frighten the enemy. At the time of Exile's Song no one on Earth ("Terra") knows how to play one, but there are still players on Darkover.
Master Everard's collection of instruments also includes "fiols" of different sizes, apparently similar to a violin or viola, on which Marguerida plays some Bach and Mozart. He also has a collection of wooden flutes of some kind, and some horns made of metal, which are Terran products. Darkover is poor in metals, and constructing a metal musical instrument would be folly. (Exile's Song, Chapter 3.)
In The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 7, Dom Esteban asks for some music after dinner, and his daughter Callista sings at Andrew Carr's request. She takes up a small harp (not stated to be a rryl) and begins:
How came this blood on your right hand
Brother, tell me, tell me
... which draws immediate protests from her twin sister Ellemir and Dezi (Desiderio Leynier). Dezi believes himself to be Esteban's son, not without reason, and it is considered very bad luck, or a deadly insult, for a woman to sing that song in her brother's hearing. Esteban ruthlessly says that no son of his is present and orders Callista to continue.
We sat at feast, we fought in jest,
Sister, I vow to thee,
A berserk's rage came in my hand
And I slew them shamefully.
The song is a version of an ancient ballad, known by several names, including "Edward."
Dancing[edit]
"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep."—Lew Alton in Sharra's Exile. Evidently this is a proverbial expression.
Dancing is an important part of Darkovan culture.
In The Heritage of Hastur, Dyan Ardais performs a solo "sword dance" at the Midwinter (Midsummer?) Ball in Comyn Castle.
In The World Wreckers, the chieri Keral, to celebrate her (formerly his) new love for David Hamilton, begins an ecstatic dance that draws in all the Telepathic Council; the result is that the plots of the World Wreckers are exposed, a person with telekinetic powers explodes a bomb that is intended to destroy the telepathic Darkovans at the cost of his life, and Andrea Closson, another chieri and one of the World Wreckers, vows to repair the damage she has done.
Religious traditions of Darkover[edit]
On the whole, the inhabitants of Darkover are not particularly religious and do not celebrate any obvious religious rituals. However, all the castles of the Domains, and Comyn Castle as well, have a "chapel" that has seating and murals (or statues) of the gods and goddesses. Also present are murals depicting scenes from "The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda". Formal marriages (di catenas) may be conducted in the chapel, or a person may retreat to it for solitude and meditation.
Darkovans believe in four deities: Avarra (goddess of birth and death), Evanda (goddess of life and warmth, and hence marriage), Aldones (lord of light), and Zandru (lord of the nine hells). Each of Zandru's hells is colder than the one above it, because Darkovans, living on a freezing planet, conceive of a cold hell. Hastur, the mythological progenitor of the Comyn, is supposedly the son of Aldones. In Thendara House and City of Sorcery Magdalen Lorne hears the "calling of crows," a sign that Avarra is present.
These entities are believed to have power in the world, but no particular interest in individual persons. However, at least one of them canonically exists: in The Shadow Matrix, Evanda is physically present, tends the fire and prepares food at the marriage of Mikhail and Marguerida. In Sharra's Exile, when Regis Hastur is fighting Sharra using the Sword of Aldones, a "damnable" face appears in the sky, presumably Aldones himself.
The Forge-Folk worship the "form of fire", known as Sharra, who appears as a fiery, chained, red-haired female figure, a manifestation of the Sharra matrix, or perhaps a being from another dimension. Bradley offers multiple conflicting explanations for Darkover's native deities, perhaps deliberately leaving the answers open to interpretation.
Some Darkovans also follow a Terran-originated belief system. These are the Cristoforos, whose beliefs derive from the work of a Catholic monk, Father Valentine, who accompanied the original expedition. Cristoforo is a corruption of St. Christopher of Centaurus, and the central figure of the belief system is the Bearer of Burdens.[21]
These two belief systems operate side by side. A Darkovan may believe in one or the other, or frequently both, without difficulty.
Plants[edit]
Kireseth[edit]
Kireseth is a plant that produces blue bell-like flowers which when covered with pollen appear to be golden. The plants bloom when very warm weather lasts for more than a day or two, a rare weather event on Darkover. The kireseth flowers release large amounts of hallucinatory pollen, creating what is called a "ghost wind." Humans and animals that inhale the pollen exhibit strange behavior, sexual activity, and violence.
The original colonists had no knowledge of this plant or its effects. The first known ghost wind resulted in a human woman becoming impregnated by a chieri, an orgy, and a massacre. Later, the Darkovans learned to distill substances from parts of the kireseth plant to either enhance telepathic ability or inhibit it.
Kireseth is important in the mythology of Darkover; the Blessed Cassilda, ancestor of the Comyn, is depicted in paintings as holding a bouquet of flowering kireseth. In The Forbidden Tower, Damon Ridenow and his circle fit together the mythological pieces and prove to themselves that a female Keeper need not be a virgin, or even chaste, to act as the center of a telepathic circle, if she uses kireseth. They are seen as rebels, and have to fight a telepathic battle to keep their circle and the "forbidden" tower they have created in the overworld. Their use of kireseth is viewed as blasphemy by many (ironically, since this use is portrayed in religious art) and when Damon's daughter, Cleindori (Dorilys Aillard) attempts to use this knowledge as the Keeper of Arilinn, a legitimate tower, she and her followers are hunted and killed. Cleindori means "Golden Bell" and is a nickname connoting her blonde hair with the appearance of the kireseth flower.
Resin Tree[edit]
The resin tree is found on the slopes of all the mountains surrounding the inhabited parts of Darkover and down into the lowlands. It is apparently a kind of evergreen conifer that forms thick forests. Dry weather and summer storms with lightning create a great danger of these forests catching on fire, which the Darkovans combat in various ways. Small fires are fought by fire crews; no one is exempt from fire duty. Large fires may need to be put out by telepathic weather-workers who create a rainstorm.
Spicebush[edit]
A "spiky" weed that grows in the desert near the Dry-towns, where nothing else grows. However, in The Shattered Chain, Chapter 3, it is described as "fluffy."
Rhowyn[edit]
A tree with a six-petaled flower (Traitor's Sun, chapter 18). Used as a nickname for the six-membered cells of the Sons of Darkover, a somewhat subversive organization. The name sounds like Rowan but the flower is different.
Fiberpods[edit]
This plant produces "pods" that after they are soaked in water can be unraveled to produce a useful fiber. There may be several kinds of plants that do this to protect their seeds from the elements. As some colonists discovered in Darkover Landfall, the chieri spin these fibers and create cloth from them using a loom. Andrea Closson, in The World Wreckers, upon finding a partly unraveled pod, starts to make thread out of it, out of habit.
The Trailmen build their cities from this fiber by stringing it between the trees like a suspension bridge and weaving a floor.
Herbs and Vegetables[edit]
It is clear from Darkover Landfall that some food plants were brought to Darkover by the colonists. Whether the ones mentioned in the chronologically later books are the same is not clear. Of course, the original stock may have been subject to selection to adapt to a redder sun and colder temperatures. Also, it appears from several of the books that the castles and great houses of the Comyn have greenhouses for the growing of vegetables and herbs. In The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 7, Damon Ridenow says that plants on Darkover have adapted by evolution to flower in winter, if there are a couple of warm days. He says that "ice-melons" cannot be grown on the plains of Armida: "It's too warm -- they're a plant of the glaciers."
However, apples grow in Armida. Damon and Andrew, after eating lunch, plant their apple cores in the ground and Andrew says, "Some day, Damon. our children will eat apples from these trees." (The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 7)
Snap-beans are mentioned in Traitor's Sun, chapter 17, when Domenic volunteers to help in the kitchen of an inn, and he is shown how to "string" them. He is told the cook "fries them with bacon" implying that there are pigs on Darkover.
Sleepweed: supposedly able to put a person into a sleep for ten days, although this may be an exaggeration (Traitor's Sun, chapter 16).
Goldenflower: Used to make a tea that eases menstrual cramps (City of Sorcery, Chapter 12).
Blackthorn: Used to make a bitter tea that is used to treat altitude sickness (City of Sorcery, Chapter 19). Perhaps the same as black thornleaf, used in poultices to treat frostbite by "draw[ing] the blood to the limbs and back to the heart"; also given in tea for frostbite (The Forbidden Tower, Chapter 6).
Mushrooms[edit]
Raising mushrooms is common in the hills and mountains. A kind of mushroom grows naturally on dead trees; harvesting requires only a knife and a sack.
Animals[edit]
It is unclear whether domestic animals are descended from stock brought by the colonists or whether they are domesticated native species. In the alternative, the Darkovans could have obtained them from the Terran Empire after rediscovery. Chickens, cattle and sheep are all mentioned, and pigs can be inferred from bacon.
The presence of Terran-sounding animals such as butterflies and snakes (The Shattered Chain, Chapter 3) is unexplained. It is not clear if they are Darkovan analogs of Terran species.
Horse[edit]
The history of horses on Darkover is ambiguous. In Hawkmistress! (during the Ages of Chaos) there is a battle in which the opposing sides charge at each other on horseback. However, in books that are historically later, it is said that horses were unknown until Terrans brought them. The Altons became known for raising them, especially after the Terran Andrew (An'ndra) Carr married into the family (see The Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower). By the time of Exile's Song horses are common, and there are also mules.
Butterfly[edit]
Apparently Darkover has native species of butterflies. They are mentioned both in descriptions of nature and in references to the "butterfly clasp" used by women to hold hair in a way that covers the back of the neck. For a woman to expose the back of her neck is considered indecent.
Hawks and Vultures[edit]
Hawks exist and are domesticated using ancient hawking techniques, which can be enhanced by laran. In several of the books, e. g. The Bloody Sun, people go hawking, and it appears to be a form of recreation common among the Comyn. The hawk "Preciosa" domesticated by Romilly MacAran in Hawkmistress! is called a verrin hawk. Smaller hawks are said to be more suitable for ladies by a Comyn lord, who says it is "disgraceful" that Romilly is allowed to fly a verrin hawk. (Hawkmistress!, Part 1, Chapter 5). It is not clear how many kinds of hawks there are.
The kyorebni is a kind of vulture. The presence of water holes in the Drylands can be inferred by kyorebni circling over them (The Shattered Chain, Chapter 4). A larger species of vulture is called a "sentry-bird," and can be used for aerial surveillance in wartime (Hawkmistress!, Parts 2 and 3). The kyorebni is called a "Lammergeier" in Terran Standard (City of Sorcery, Chapter 11).
Chervine[edit]
The chervine is an animal native to Darkover. It is apparently similar to a deer in its general appearance and has horns; however it has been domesticated and is used for riding and as a pack animal. It is also used for food.
Rabbithorn[edit]
The rabbithorn is native to Darkover. It is considered to be very good eating, even a delicacy. In Traitor's Sun it is mentioned that the inn, The Crowing Cock, keeps them in cages. In Darkover Landfall the colonists discuss raising them domestically for their fur. Rabbithorn (the plural and singular are the same) may be stuffed and roasted, placed on a platter and served with mushrooms, other vegetables and a savory or sweet sauce. They are also made into a stew.
This animal is never clearly described. It may be partly a joke based on the Jackalope or the Wolpertinger.
Ice-Rabbit[edit]
The ice-rabbit lives in the mountains and is an important prey of banshees. The ice-rabbit population increases and decreases according to the availability of food. When there are plenty of ice-rabbits, the banshees stay above the snow-line; but when the ice-rabbit population crashes, the banshees start to hunt lower down and are a greater danger to travelers (City of Sorcery, Chapter 19).
Scorpion Ant[edit]
The scorpion ant is an insect-like organism with pincers and a potentially deadly sting that lives in colonies. In Darkover Landfall a member of an expedition steps on a nest and arouses the inhabitants, leading to his painful and sudden death.
Banshee[edit]
The banshee is a large, flightless, blind, bird-like predator that lives in the mountains, commonly above the line of permanent snow. It apparently hunts by seeking warmth, and it will attack any warm-blooded animal. It catches its prey by screaming to paralyze it and then disemboweling it with a stroke of one of its clawed feet or by a bite of its huge beak. It is mentioned in nearly all the novels, and a few characters hear its scream, or actually see the banshee and have a narrow escape.
There are several speculations about the banshee's paralyzing scream in various books. The scream may be so terrifying that its prey is afraid to move. Alternatively, it has been suggested that banshees have a laran that can take over the mind of another and leave him vulnerable.
Dragon[edit]
The dragon is an extinct, perhaps mythical creature on Darkover. Marion Zimmer Bradley, in the introduction to "Coils" by Patricia Shaw Mathews in the anthology Red Sun of Darkover, says that she has "always thought of Darkover as a place of which one might say, 'Here there be dragons.'" There are two canonical references to the dragon: The "Ballad of the Death of the Last Dragon" as described in Two To Conquer, and the proverb, "It is wrong (or "ill done") to keep a dragon chained to roast your meat." Various characters speculate on the meaning of this saying:
It would be dangerous to make a dragon work for you.
Something powerful and dangerous should not be used for a trivial purpose.
It would be right to keep a dragon chained to render him harmless, but a dragon has no use.
Dragons cannot be chained, at least not for very long.
Dragons do not exist, and the saying is humorous.
^ Darkover - Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust
^ Rediscovery, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey, DAW Books, 1993, hardback
^ Darkover, https://fanlore.org/wiki/Darkover, section "Mapping Darkover"
^ Renk, Thorsten, Mapping Darkover, http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/darkover/darkover_map.html#mental_map
^ a b The Planet Savers, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ace Books, 1962, paperback
^ The World Wreckers, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ace Books, 1971, paperback
^ Star of Danger, Marion Zimmer Bradley, pgs 201-209, Ace Books, 1965, paperback
^ Victory's Cost, Patricia B. Cirone, Towers of Darkover, pgs 103-106, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW Books, 1993, paperback
^ Breen, Walter; The Darkover Concordance pg 49, Pennyfarthing Press, 1979, trade paperback
^ Breen, Walter; The Darkover Concordance, pg 74, Pennyfarthing Press, 1979, trade paperback
^ Vai Dom, Diana L. Paxson, The Keeper's Price, DAW Books, 1980, paperback
^ Breen, Walter; The Darkover Concordance, pg 139, Pennyfarthing Press, 1979, trade paperback
^ Marion Zimmer Bradley (1980), "A Darkover Retrospective", The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, San Francisco. Online at http://www.mzbworks.com/Darkover-Retrospective.htm
^ Breen, Walter; The Darkover Concordance", pg 1, Pennyfarthing Press, 1979, trade paperback
^ A Flame at Hali, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, DAW Books, paperback
^ Marion Zimmer Bradley, Stormqueen!, pg 167, DAW Books, 1978, paperback
^ The Oath of the Free Amazons, pgs 16-22, Walter Breen, Free Amazons of Darkover, DAW Books, 1985, paperback
^ a b Introduction: About Amazons, pgs 7-14, Free Amazons of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW Books, 1985, paperback
^ Breen, Walter; The Darkover Concordance, pg 116-118, Pennyfarthing Press, 1979, trade paperback
^ a b Renk, Thorsten, "A brief analysis of casta and cahuenga", Duke University, [undated]. Online at http://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/darkover/casta.html
^ The Fall of Neskaya, Marion Zimmer Bradley, pg 55, DAW Books, 2001, paperback
^ "Every action, according to me, either is or begins with a causally simple mental action, that is, a mental event that does not consist of one mental event causing others." -- Carl Ginet
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RE: Welcome to the Easy Allies Forums!
Hello, this is my first time posting in the forums. I do not typically join forums, but I don't really have many people to talk to about my passion for videogames and I would like to change that! I hope I can be a thoughtful and fun contributor to the discussions.
I've been watching Easy Allies for a while now and I really enjoy their content.
New and Upcoming Indie Game Releases
Sometimes it can be easy to overlook many smaller game releases that are coming out, but there have been so many gems this generation when it comes to indie games. I thought it would be a good idea to create a thread dedicated to all of the new and upcoming indie releases to bring more attention to some of these games.
To kick things off, today is the release date of "Devil Engine", a side-scrolling shmup, available on Steam and Switch, coming to PS4 and EXA(?) later this year. It is retailing at 19.99 usd. A free demo is currently available on Steam.
I think the game looks pretty cool from what I have seen. I have tried the demo and I like the feel and style of the game, although it is extremely difficult. I am not too experienced with the shmup genre, so I am not sure how common some of this game's mechanics are, but I liked how the game offered various speed settings in-game and the burst ability (basically a bullet-dodging barrel-roll) was cool. I will probably hold off on getting this one until the PS4 release comes out, but I am excited for it. Last year I really got into a vertical-scrolling shmup called "Crimzon Clover", which sparked my interest in the genre. I am eager to check out more.
Is anybody else here hyped about Devil Engine? Thoughts?
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RE: New and Upcoming Indie Game Releases
Wow, good stuff so far. I have never heard about either of these games. "Slay the Spire" is definitely going on my to-buy list. I find most Rogue-likes interesting and I am really liking the look of how the card-game mechanics fit into this one.
RE: Devil May Cry 5 (XBO/PS4/PC)
Only one week left...I'm hyped!
I must have played through the demo about 8 times now. I've only really played the first and second DMC games, but I am excited to get back into this series.
Are We in a Golden Age of Videogames?
I think the key aspect of this generation has been access. More and more game developers have access to get their products on the market. Purchasing products has never been easier thanks to digital distribution, so customers are given easier paths to access games, without being barred by games going out-of-print and hard to find. These, I think, are some positives that outweigh the negatives and controversies surrounding this generation.
Of course, the biggest positives are the games themselves. When I think of the great experiences I have had this generation, many coming from fantastic small studio games like "Hollow Knight", "Rain World", "Hyper Light Drifter", "Hotline Miami 2", and so much more, the more I believe that what has been done this generation measures up to some of the great eras of the past. Back in the Xbox 360 days, I remember looking at XBLA titles as a niche interest, a novelty in relation to "regular" 59.99 priced releases. Today, the definitions are changing. Simply put, "indie games" belong in the general discussion of games and not in a sub-category. I believe part of the reason we have seen so many quality releases this generation has been in response to digital marketplaces creating easier pathways for developers to sell games.
The many controversies of this videogame generation, from loot boxes to on-disc DLC, the biggest possible detriment of all is going to be in the topic of preservation. It is still very early to see what challenges will be faced, but with early signs like the closure of the Wii shop and games being taken off digital marketplaces for licensing problems, game fans should be completely aware of these issues. With the digital marketplace being so prevalent, it is paramount for the companies hosting these marketplaces to find lasting solutions to preservation concerns. Imagine a future where all games, past and present, were digitized and made readily available. Imagine if there was an official solution to finally digitize games that are entangled in licensing problems. Isn't it worth it for a developer's work to be readily accessible and not fated to be a rare piece of plastic that will only be experienced by game collector hobbyists?
But focusing on the pure aspect of the game experiences of this generation, I think videogames are in an exciting, transformative place at the moment. Do you agree or disagree with these sentiments? Do you think this is a great time for videogames? Do you see potential in what has changed in the gaming landscape?
Opinions on Review Score Scales?
By review score scales, I am referring to using a 10 star system, 5 star system, etc. to review games.
I assume most people are comfortable with either the 10 or the 5 star scale, because that is what I see people using 90% of the time. But from a consumer standpoint, using reviewers to partly help influencing a purchasing decision, I feel that both scales are lacking.
Starting with the 5 scale, which I think is definitely better than the 10 scale, my main issue is the difference between rating a game 1/5 vs. 2/5. Regardless if a game gets either of these scores, the reviewer's opinion already seems to be communicating that they had a negative experience with the game. If I see a game get a 2/5, it tells me the reviewer did not like the game.
I feel that the 10 scale is the worst, as the balance feels completely off with how practically all reviewers seem to handle it. Anything from a 1/10 to a 5/10 tells me the reviewer didn't like the game. Is there really much value in differentiating what makes a 1/10 vs. a 3/10? Is it important to have so many different levels of "bad"?
Wouldn't a 4 scale system make more sense? A 4 scale system would not necessarily manifest similarities between an educational grading scale, as 5 and 10 scales seem to. It is slightly more adaptive than a thumb up/thumb down system, as you can differentiate between good and really good. The 2/4 feels different enough from a 1/4 in communicating a mediocre experience vs. a negative experience.
To highlight some questions:
Do you think there is an important distinction between reviewers giving a game a 1/5 vs. a 2/5? Is it important to have the range of 1/10 through 5/10 in communicating a negative experience?
Do you think the aspect of giving a game a number score has any inherit benefit over reviews that do not use any numbers or stars? Do you prefer reviews that do not use a number scale?
RE: Cadence of Hyrule (Switch)
"Crypt of the Necrodancer" is some of the most fun I have had in a rhythm-based game. I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet, its price can get pretty low in Steam and PlayStation Store sales.
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I've been trying to catch more Japanese live-action movies. One recent one that I have seen that I really liked was "Radiance" (dir. Naomi Kawase). I thought that the performances in that one were very good.
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Major power outage hits New York, & other large cities...
Thread: Major power outage hits New York, & other large cities...
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CNN News Report
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck dozens of cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.
Cities affected include New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.
Gov. George Pataki declared a state of emergency in New York City and the state and deployed additional state police.
State officials said the outage is likely a natural occurrence and not related to terrorism. They said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid, which provides power for New York and stretches into Canada, was overloaded.
"It's probably a natural occurrence which [struck] the power system up there," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CNN. "The good news is, Con Ed's facilities have shut down automatically, which they're programmed to do." Consolidated Edison is the New York area power company.
Black smoke coming from a power station on East 14th Street "was a natural thing," Bloomberg said. "No damage was done to the Con Ed facilities," he said.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security said, "The department is working with state and local officials an the energy sector to determine the cause of the outage and what response may need to be taken."
Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said based on preliminary information it appears that a "cascading blackout" was caused by an outage at a Manhattan power plant, which has destabilized the power grid as far north as Canada and as far west as Detroit and Cleveland.
FERC and the Department of Energy were monitoring the situation and evaluating the problem, Lee said.
Frank McCarton, deputy commissioner for the Office of Emergency Management, said the blackout may have originated in Canada. "We understand that, from Con Ed, that we had a power surge and a dip and a failure that originated in Ontario," McCarton said.
Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street was shut down. All area airports and the Long Island Railroad were also affected.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded planes at all three New York area airports and in Cleveland because the blackout affected security screening facilities. The FAA reported planes also were grounded at the Toronto airport. The airports were operating on backup power, officials said.
Bloomberg said it was unknown how long the outage may last.
The New York City Police Department said a number of people were trapped in elevators. Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars.
"We are going to have a situation where people are going to have to walk a long distance. They need to be careful," Bloomberg said. "Our advice is to go home, open up your windows, drink a lot of liquids."
In Washington, a White House official said information about the situation was being relayed to President Bush, who was in California.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14...age/index.html
Sky News Report
Power cuts have hit a number of cities in North America and Canada, causing huge chaos.
The loss of power means that there are no subway trains or buses running in New York City, with reports suggesting that thousands of people are stranded in subway tunnels.
New Yorkers stream out of subway
New Yorkers poured out of subway tunnels onto the streets, and with traffic lights failing and pedestrians walking next to cars, a gridlock quickly formed.
Meanwhile, parts of Detroit and Cleveland have been paralysed by loss of power, with similar problems being felt in Toronto and Ottawa and other parts of the American north-east.
Airports have closed and mobile phones have stopped working, while prisons in New York have also lost their power and have been forced to use back-up supplies.
Crowds at ferry terminal
Reports have said there is a fire at the Con Edison power plant in Manhattan, with other reports saying that the Niagara Mohawk power grid went down.
US power regulators have said that the loss of power in New York is having a cascading effect on the national grid, causing the problems in other areas.
The Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg said there was "no evidence" that terrorism had caused the power problems.
The FBI said that their initial investigations also agreed that the incident was not terrorist-related.
Mr Bloomberg said that he expected power to start returning to the city fairly soon, though he stressed it would take some time for full power to be restored.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...100431,00.html
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Could it be the Blaster worm?! Lots of power stations and grids uses Windows PCs with custom management software sitting on top to manager the processes and grid management. And the patch to get rid of the Blaster worm doesn't install if the rigs don't have at least SP2 for Win2k installed... I know that a lot of corporates are still testing SP2 and SP3 for bugs, nevermind SP4...
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Well I feel sorry for them
People trapped in subway cars for 5 hours in searing heat, hospitals without power and homes not just without electicity but without water as well.
Can't be nice.
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A major power grid was overloaded. Because this one went down the extra load was tranferred to other grids until they went down too (the domino effect)
on a nice fluffy cloud in my head
Originally posted by Knoxville
nicely put Knox... don't they have back-up generators or anything to use? poor Yanks, without air-con. now they know how us poor english people feel in summer
if war is the answer, then we are asking the wrong question
2 things i hate the most - xenophobia and the french
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THey say that Britain is starting to run out of power and we will start getting huge power outages sometime in December what will we do were running out of power
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did u see the picyures of it... omfg... people were walking down the freeways tharts a frikin long walk home.....
it is indeed, and new york i bet is a hot place, especially in the subways, killer
Originally posted by Jcb33
Umm piffle lol
The power companies are actually selling our excess over the channel lol
In 20 years time it's another matter though:
"Currently our generation mix for electricity is approximately 32% coal, 23% nuclear, 38% gas, 4% oil, with 3% others and renewables.
Emission constraints mean that the UK's coal-powered generating plants will close shortly after 2016 and only one nuclear power station will remain operational beyond 2020."
The brunt of it will fall on gas, which is already twindling in a big way..
Basically the government needs to get off it's rear and get proper plans in place to get renewable and sustainable clean energy up to the level where it can pick up the shortfall.
Oh, was that a pig flying by my window?
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dunno about running out of power but due to the recent hot weather there was a report on the radio yesterday that wales is running out of booze :EEK:
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Can we actually see black holes, or do we have to wait.
November 4, 2016 12:15:41 AM from JoeUser Forums
Technically we wouldn't be able to see a hole in space, or even so dense of matter no light can be reflected. Or can we Hawkins radiation. Can we prove this other than theory. Don't know. Other than infared light there is no other light coming from a black hole.
As a deffinition a black hole is a type of dead star that cannot emit light other than infared after it's pulsar dies out. A dark star which is a prelude to a black hole is a star so dense that cannot emit light. If a dark is not a dead star then it wouldn't be a black hole. Like a Quark star that is a dense neutron star. We cannot see a black hole other than in infared, but we can see a quasar where a number of stars are being sucked into a black hole.
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Reply #1 November 4, 2016 7:31:04 AM
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I think you need to go back and reread some of the science again. A black hole is a dead star that has collapsed to a singularity, a single point in space. Its gravity is so great that nothing can escape, not even infrared radiation. Hawking Radiation is a special case, and isn't really easy to detect anyway. We detect black holes by their effect on their surroundings: they are massive, so their gravity affects nearby stars. Like Yoda says, you just look for the center of the attraction, and there a black hole will you find. Also, their gravity will distort the images of stars behind them, and you can look for double-images to find black holes.
Contrast this with a pulsar, neutron star, and quark star. These are all less-massive dead stars that have not collapsed far enough to become a black hole. They can still be found using their gravity, and we can technically 'see' them, although they are very faint... except pulsars, which can be very loud [edit: read 'bright'] at certain frequencies!
As far as whether Black Holes exist: we are pretty damned sure they do. Too many observations indicate that they do, other theories predicts that they do, and the data match hypothetical calculations exactly within experimental error. Science cannot actually 'prove' anything, for philosophical reasons. Black Holes are at a state of understanding that scientists call 'theory,' but that isn't a theory in the way you mean it. To a scientist, a 'theory' is a reliable, usable piece of scientific understanding (what you would probably call a 'scientific fact'). What you call a 'theory,' we call a hypothesis. Black Holes are a matter of theory, meaning they are about as proven as they are going to get. If we are wrong about black holes, we are likely wrong about a whole lot of other significant things. That gives us more confidence, actually, since it means that all of our observations are in tune with one another.
There isn't much else we can do with black holes. If we get closer to them, we can do fun things like observe their tidal effect (your toes will be more attracted to the star than your head, for example), and we can drop things so that they fall forever into the event horizon. We can go around it and look at the gravitational lensing effect from every angle. But there isn't really anything you can do there that you can't already do from here with some effort. So waiting to find out more isn't a very productive idea...
Quoting General Pants,
Like Yoda says, you just look for the center of the attraction, and there a black hole will you find.
Just to remind people...Yoda is a really bad excuse of a muppet...and not in any way real.
Embrace that and science will take on a whole new meaning/relevance...
And Jafo is a really obscure movie reference from whence to derive one's internet handle...
Isn't it a little racist to discount everything someone says because they happen to be a muppet? And what is this 'bad excuse?' I think he makes an excellent muppet!
Actually, no. It's an epithet he cherishes from his involvement in motor racing.
He's miss-cast. Muppets shouldn't be engaging in high-level sword fights with masters of the craft....and if he beats one then it really sets a low bar for the 'master' class.
I don't think calling a muppet a 'muppet' is racist....
And 'JAFO' existed a hell of a long time before 'Blue Thunder', so it ain't a 'movie reference' at all [except for the Hollywood groupie]. Think 'Air Force' ...
I met a 1-11 pilot back in '85 at the Adelaide F1 GP who was about to retire [20 years and 2 tours of Vietnam] and he said he had to introduce me to his 'Ex' [the polite term] and I said..."what...your JAFO?" to which he replied "oh...you mustn't call him that...you'll make him upset"..... His 'Ex' looked like Tom Cruise from Top Gun [except taller...like a grown-up], but we got on OK after I'd explained my role at the Grands Prix was Just Another Fucking Observer [aka Comms].
Reply #6 November 4, 2016 11:04:40 AM
looked like Tom Cruise from Top Gun [except taller...like a grown-up]
Laughing my ass off...
You wouldn't, now, would you... ? I mean, I'm not a muppet, but I have a lot of muppet friends, and I know it is a hard world when your skin is made of felt. The world is full of micro-aggressions, like people asking if they can play ping pong with your eyeballs, or if you'll open your mouth really wide so they can see your incredibly detailed uvula. They get really sick of that 'it's not easy being green' song too. They aren't all green, that is a stereotype!
Making a big deal out of a person because he lives his life with another person's hand crammed up his vent strikes me as the height of insensitivity! No one makes a big deal about who or what you sit on or how your mouthflap works, and no one points out the wires working your arms. I think you owe our muppet friends a little more consideration.
Muppets shouldn't be engaging in high-level sword fights with masters of the craft...
And that's not racist? What if you had a a little half-muppet child? Would you tell them they can't be a master swordsman?
And, going waaaay off topic:
I met a 1-11 pilot back in '85 at the Adelaide
Was that an Ozzie F-11[edit:1] pilot or an American (or a Brit... didn't they use the FB-111 for a while?)?
Reply #7 November 4, 2016 5:00:46 PM
Which is why 'BlindJAFO' was the perfect WB skin name for one done by Paul. Still one of the best blinds ever IMHO.
Yes....that was an Aussie F111 pilot....did the dump and burn to light up the sky.
Must have been after '85....because the original one in 85 got into a whole lot of poo....popped the sound barrier just offshore from the city on the Tuesday before the GP........during [his] practise...
Broke a few windows.....
Of course, if you have someone's arm firmly embedded up your clacker you've got more to worry about than a little name-calling...
Reply #10 November 5, 2016 3:54:56 PM
I don't think muppets are a different race, but a different species. So he's a speciesists. This is funny!
Quoting admiralWillyWilber,
OMG...it's specie-al discrimination!!!!!
As for 'way off topic' .....was this ever on one? ...
Don't blame me...I didn't bring up Yoda....and come to think of it....neither should have Lucas....
Reply #12 November 7, 2016 7:36:14 AM
I didn't bring up Yoda...
And thus, a new euphemism for vomiting was born... "bringing up Yoda..."
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Re: Would the truth made a difference?
Parga was busy:
Q OKAY. IN A AND B CAN YOU TELL ME WAS THIS -- DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC RECOLLECTION AS TO WHETHER THIS WAS TAKEN -- LET ME ASK YOU THIS: HOW MANY TIMES WERE YOU IN THE HOUSE ON THE 4TH, IF YOU RECALL?
A TWICE. NO. I'M SORRY. THREE TIMES.
Q THREE TIMES. THE FIRST TIME, I'M SORRY, WAS?
A DETECTIVE KEENE AND I.
Q THE SECOND TIME?
A WITH DETECTIVE LABORE AND A SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSON.
(Jim Frazee from search and rescue? Sounds like detective LaBore may have cross contaminated Westerfield's house. Didn't he personally take items from Danielle's bedroom and scent the dogs with them? And now he's been spotted in Westerfield's house? Lo-card transfer or what? Dorie was at the van Dam house and then visited Westerfield's crib, possibly tracking in trace evidence.)
Q AROUND WHAT TIME WAS THAT, MA'AM?
A THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AFTER WE HAD COME BACK FROM THE MOTOR HOME, SO TWOISH. I'M REALLY NOT SURE.
Q TWOISH. WELL, WE CAN SAY EARLY AFTERNOON?
A YES.
Q AND THEN THE THIRD TIME?
A WOULD BE WHEN WE WENT BACK TO TALK TO MR. WESTERFIELD.
Q SO THAT WOULD BE ABOUT THREEISH? I'M ASKING. I'M NOT TRYING --
A I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY.
Originally posted by steve17 View Post
Good point. That’s from testimony by Jim Frazee on June 3 (in unsealed document westerfield2). The pillowcase was given to him by Detective Howard LaBore of Robbery. See pages 199 and 242 of “Rush to Judgement”.
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I was looking up something on Wikipedia, when I found this:
from a column in The Daily Beast by trial lawyer Roy Black:
"How could anyone do all this without leaving behind a scintilla of microscopic evidence? They would have to have been wearing a full rubber suit or some type of space suit and levitated over the scene."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...no-murder.html
Re: Stealth Ninja Dave
(If you have the same cast of characters, including Pfingst, well, anything's possible and I do believe in miracles.
This one had an interesting timeline too.
Child is dead! Life taken from two others!!
Do the math!!! Convert it to a number and PROVE it!!!)
(The physics didn't support the theory was my take on this tragedy in Coronado. Stuff happen' all the time though, just have to be aware and approach things with an open mind, pretending you don't know it all, pretending!!
It goes to illustrate how differently people think, those who take the time to!)
Somebody needs to inquire why SDPD ignored the blood evidence found at the crime scene and focused on NON-biological evidence, like hoses for an example.
When did Danielle's bloody clothing and bedding become less important than neighbors who weren't home?
Sunday night at midnight, SDPW was interested in Westerfield. Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. SDPD wasn't interested in Westerfield.
How much of the blood evidence was Collins aware of? Imagine if the homicide team collects the evidence, transports it to the homicide office and forgets to tell the "NEW" person in charge what had been seized from the house with alleged bloodstains on it.
If Collins isn't told about the blood, of course HE's got nothing to go off and I have to apologize to Robbery Jim. After all these years I just assumed the dude in charge would know the important facts about the case, that's all.
If Collins wasn't told or didn't know about the blood in the stairwell, he certainly wasn't told about the blood from Danielle's bedroom and the rest of the property.
By Brian Hazle
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
A 7-year-old Sabre Springs girl disappeared yesterday and police are unsure whether she wandered off or was abducted.
Brenda and Damon van Dam told police their daughter, Danielle, went to bed about 10:30 p.m. Friday, and they discovered she was missing about 9 a.m. yesterday. The family lives on Mountain Pass Road in the Sabre Springs neighborhood of San Diego near the Poway city limits.
Police said they found no sign anyone broke into the home, but did find both a garage door and side gate leading to the back yard open.
(And they found the slider locked? Told ya the slider was a revise to the script. Duh!!!)
Frantic neighbors spent much of the day searching a nearby canyon and posting fliers with Danielle's picture throughout the neighborhood, but found no sign of the girl.
Danielle was last seen wearing blue pajamas with flowers on them. She is white, about 4-feet, 8-inches tall and weighs roughly 58 pounds, police said. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the San Diego Police Department at (619) 531-2000.
Brenda van Dam left the home about 9 p.m. Friday to go out with friends, while her husband stayed home with the children. She told police that she returned about 2 a.m. and ate pizza with the friends and her husband until 3 a.m.
Before they went to bed, they noticed red lights blinking on a burglar alarm panel, and discovered a sliding glass door at the back of the house and a side garage door were open.
The alarm did not sound, and the couple closed the doors and went to bed. They did not check on the children before they retired, Cohen said.
(If THEY discovered both doors open and THEY noticed alarm lights on and THEY discovered a sliding glass door and side garage door open, WHO are THEY? THEY aren't written into the final script I've been reading from.)
They discovered the girl was missing when a neighborhood friend of Danielle's came to the home to play with her about 9 a.m. Her parents said Danielle was still sleeping and went to wake her up, but she was gone.
(Or 9:30 a.m. as it ended up in the final draft.)
"You think you live in a safe neighborhood and you wake up one day and your daughter is gone," Brenda van Dam said through tears. "I just want her back in my arms."
(Care to comment on the blood found in your house and daughter's room? SDPD claims they have nothing to go on, perhaps you should suggest they examine the blood evidence found at the crime scene BEFORE searching for neighbors who aren't home.)
http://justicedenied.org/wordpress/archives/1826
The experts include three forensic entomologists with new evidence establishing to a scientific certainty Bailey died after sunset, which was at 8:01 p.m. on July 8, 2001.
(But what if the "old" evidence was ignored???)
Dr. Gail S. Anderson explains in her report dated December 17, 2009 that flies begin laying eggs within minutes after death on an exposed body and they stop laying eggs after sunset. There were no fly eggs in any of Bailey’s many open wounds or his orifices, so the three experts independently determined he died after sunset.
The forensic entomologists are Dr. Anderson, Dr. M. Lee Goff, and Dr. Linda-Lou O’Connor. Dr. Anderson is a professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and was recognized by Time magazine as one of the top five global innovators in the Criminal Justice Field this century.
Dr. Goff is the director of the Chaminade University Forensic Sciences program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the entomology advisor for the CSI and CSI: Miami television shows. Dr. O’Connor was formerly with the Department of Entomology at the University of Kentucky and is an independent consultant at forensic entomology.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Glen Larkin’s new medical evidence that Bailey died within the two hours between 8 p.m. and his body’s discovery at 10 p.m. corroborates the new entomology evidence about Bailey’s time of death.
(Yeah, it's what the insects have been trying to tell you for 12+ years. Why aren't we smart enough to listen?)
The new scientific and medical evidence Bailey died after 8 p.m. on July 8 in Las Vegas is proof that it is physically impossible Kirstin murdered Bailey, because even her prosecutors acknowledged during her trial she was in Panaca the entire afternoon and night of July 8.
The experts also include:
Impressions expert William J. Bodziak, who worked with the FBI for 26 years, with new evidence that shoeprints imprinted in blood found on cardboard and leading away from Bailey’s body were not made by Kirstin’s shoes or shoe size.
Forensic scientist George Schiro with new evidence that Bailey’s murderer could not have been wearing the shoes the prosecution contends Kirstin was wearing at the time of his murder.
Dental surgeon Dr. Mark Lewis with new evidence Bailey’s teeth were not knocked out with a bat as the prosecution claims.
Psychologist and confessions expert Dr. Allison D. Redlich with new evidence Kirstin’s police statement on July 20, 2001 described in detail the attempted rape of her at a Budget Suites Hotel on Boulder Highway, and it had nothing to do with Bailey’s murder that occurred weeks later.
Polygraph examiner Ron Slay, who is used by the Clark County DA’s Office to determine a suspect’s truthfulness, with the new evidence he declared after examining Kirstin, “I am certain Ms. Lobato is innocent of Mr. Bailey’s murder.”
In addition, nine alibi witnesses have new evidence Kirstin told them about the attempted rape at the Budget Suites Hotel between late May 2001 and days prior to July 8 – so it is not possible the rape attempt described in her statement was the same event as Bailey’s murder. Also, four alibi witnesses have new evidence Kirstin was in Panaca the weekend of July 6 to 8, not 170 miles away in Las Vegas where Bailey was murdered.
With the new evidence it is physically impossible Kirstin was in Las Vegas at the time of Bailey’s murder, and the new evidence that her police statement described the attempted rape of her more than a month before his murder, there is no rational basis for DA Wolfson not to support the granting of her petition and her immediate release from prison in the interests of justice.
The change.org petition in support of Kirstin Blaise Lobato can be signed at, http://www.change.org/petitions/just...-blaise-lobato.
highcard
So, the husband of the gal that Damon is banging calls King Stahlman. Then, King Stahlman offers a substantial award for finding the kidnapper.
Why? Does he need a bail bond guy? Is King related to the husband or the wife? Does the husband want King to up the award to put pressure on Damon?
Does the husband and/or King notify the police?
Just makes no sense for the husband to call King, unless King is related in some way to the husband or wife. OR, was the call made to take the heat OFF of Damon/Brenda...maybe they were swinging partners that were threatened by Damon if they said he was out of the house that night.
VERY peculiar.
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http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/me...m12reward.html
Family, bail bondsman offer $75,000 reward in search for girl
...Later in the day, San Diego bail bondsman George "King" Stahlman announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for Danielle's disappearance.
(Maybe the call to the King was made on February 12th, in an effort to collect a bit of the reward money.)
BY MR. DUSEK:
Q: PHOTOGRAPHS A, B, AND C. WHAT DO THEY SHOW US?
A: I DON'T KNOW WHAT A IS. MAY I GET UP AND LOOK
Q: SURE.
A: OH. SORRY. THAT'S A BRIEFCASE.
Q: DO THEY APPEAR TO BE THE TREE AREA WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND?
(What would a briefcase be doing next to Danielle's body underneath the tree? Was the briefcase there before Danielle's body was? Was the briefcase left under the tree at the same time Danielle's body was left under the tree? Or, was the briefcase placed next to her body a while after she had been at Dehesa?)
Q: DID HE GIVE YOU AN APPROXIMATION AS TO WHEN HE SAID HE LEFT DAD'S?
A: HE SAID BETWEEN 11:00 AND 11:30 FRIDAY NIGHT.
Q: AND HE WENT WHERE, ACCORDING TO HIM?
A: ACCORDING TO HIM HE WENT DIRECTLY HOME.
Q: DID HE SAY WHAT HE DID BACK AT THE HOUSE?
A: HE SAID ONCE HE GOT BACK HOME, HE WENT DIRECTLY TO BED.
Q: DID HE INDICATE WHETHER HE SAW ANYTHING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN HE PULLED IN?
A: I ASKED HIM IF BRENDA AND HER FRIENDS WERE STILL AT THE BAR WHEN HE LEFT, AND HE SAID, WELL, WHEN I GOT HOME, HER TRUCK WAS NOT IN THE DRIVEWAY. AND THEN HE SAID IN FACT I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER SEEING DAMON'S VAN NEAR THE HOUSE.
Q: WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY REGARDING THAT EVENING?
A: NOTHING. HE SAID HE WENT DIRECTLY TO BED.
(Let's pretend that Westerfield arrived home sometime between 11:30 and 12:30 Friday night, Saturday morning. Westerfield's home, but Damon's not? Could happen, did it? Westerfield says it did and a neighbor anonymously confirmed it? Testimony supports sumthing's up with Damon and the dog that night. Much easier to get Danielle if Damon's gone, isn't it? Damon's van is gone, according to the perpetual liar Westerfield.)
..."But they still have so many questions about what happened the night Westerfield kidnapped Danielle.
"I'd still like to know for sure how he got into the house, and how he got her," Collins said.
(Not satisfied with the "he entered through the garage door and exited the slider" story?)
He's unsure if Westerfield went to the van Dams' home to grab Danielle. Maybe he wanted Brenda. Or maybe he wanted the baby sitter he thought was looking after the children."
(Maybe he really wanted Danielle and conveniently Damon wasn't home, Brenda wasn't home and Layla was locked up, chewing up her doggie bed. Damon gets home before Brenda and Co, discovers Danielle missing and from there, "it's ON!!!"
Discovering Danielle missing on Friday night gives them time to think up better stories like Westerfield did. If it doesn't fit into a bit of reality, it probably doesn't belong and is bad data.)
When Keene caught up with Westerfield on Feb. 4, his rambling explanation of his weekend adventures grabbed the detective's attention.
(Never mind the 4 versions of the pizza story and the ever changing alarm STORIES!!! Anybody explain the who, what, where, when and why of the blood found in Danielle's bedroom and other places at the crime scene? The first crime scene, that is.)
Then Westerfield mentioned chatting with Brenda van Dam at Dad's, and told Keene, out of the blue, "I could have sworn she said she had a baby sitter. I didn't know her husband was home."
"That was just like a big red flag to me," Keene said.
(Then Westerfield mentioned not seeing Damon's van that night around midnight. Then there was the anonymous letter to Judge Mudd suggesting Damon wasn't home that night as he was at a neighbor's house allegedly having sex with the neighbor's wife.)
Later that day, police interrogation specialist Paul Redden heard a series of warning signals while interviewing Westerfield for three hours. At the end of the meeting, Redden told Westerfield he was on to him.
(Redden: Any of the blood, hair or prints from the crime scene match Westerfield? Anybody? Does the blood DNA evidence from the crime scene MATCH our ONLY suspect? Why NOT???)
"There's no doubt in my mind that you're somehow involved in the disappearance of Danielle van Dam," Redden told him.
Westerfield denied it.
(Keene was the voice of Westerfield, wasn't he?)
... i know the whole story...i was her neighbor and her friend i miss her so much and she would be about 15 right now if that didnt happen but its worse if u knew the whole story
LilMeesyy 3 years ago
(Friends helping friends?)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...03/lkl.00.html
Aired December 3, 2002 - 21:00 ET
B. VAN DAM: I don't know. I don't know if he was after the babysitter or if he was after me. I just don't know. I don't know...
(How could he be after you if you were still at the bar? If he was after you, why did he hide in Danielle's bedroom?)
B. VAN DAM: He thought we had a babysitter. And, you know, if you think about it, the babysitter would have been a teenage girl, most logically. But our baby-sitter would have been a teenage boy because that's who we have baby-sitting our children. I don't know what made him snap.
..."Van Dam Suspicions"
Douglas Pierce recent comments on Websleuths......
He was the man who entered the Van Dam residence shortly after the crime and was horrified at what he saw. He noticed the Van Dams rehearsing lines, saw the blue PJs being folded and was overall shocked at the behavior of the parents.
Here is SOME of what he had to say.
- The page saying "Daddy please love me" had been torn out and was in damon's nightstand in the master bedroom
-The journal had been placed in the bookshelf and Brenda had to find it for Pierce to look at.
-The last entry there was "I am thinking of a shady place, blue sky and green grass, a safe place."
-Her journal was titled:Goodwill Ambassador
-On 2/6/02 While in the VD house, Pierce heard PR people say "What are we going to do about Brenda and Westerfield?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/656916/posts
How many people from SDPD visited the motor home BEFORE a search warrant was acquired?
Q: LASTLY, YOU DESCRIBED A TRIP TO THE MOTOR HOME AS IT'S BEEN DESCRIBED ON FEBRUARY 4TH. IS THAT CORRECT?
Q: AND I BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT THERE WERE OTHER INDIVIDUALS PRESENT.
Q: WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?
A: DETECTIVE HOWIE, SERGEANT DURAN, FORENSIC SPECIALIST INZUNZA, AND MYSELF.
(Myself being Dorie.)
Q: DID ANYONE ENTER THE MOTOR HOME AT THAT TIME, ANY OF THAT GROUP OF PEOPLE?
(Keene and Parga were the first to visit the motor home.)
...and after the warrant was acquired?
PEER:
A. THERE WAS AN INITIAL EXAMINATION OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE MOTOR HOME TO EXAMINE IT FOR THE PRESENCE OF TRACE EVIDENCE, AND SHORTLY AFTER THAT THE MOTOR HOME WAS ENTERED AND A VERY BRIEF WALK-THROUGH WAS CONDUCTED.
Q. ON FEBRUARY 5TH?
Q. BY WHOM? I'M TALKING ABOUT INDIVIDUALS WHO WENT INSIDE THE MOTOR HOME FOR THIS BRIEF EXAMINATION.
A. AS I RECALL, IT WAS MYSELF, FORENSIC SPECIALIST KAREN LEE ALCALA, SERGEANT HOLMES, AND THAT'S ALL I RECALL AT THIS TIME.
(And let's not forget Holmes driving the motor home back to the station. I guess that's the way SDPD handles all impounded vehicles, 'specially ones involved in alleged crimes against children.)
On February 4, 2002, at approximately 11:00 a.m., Detectives Keene, Parga Stetson, Morris and Sgt. Wray searched Mr. Westerfield's motor home, storage units and trailer without a warrant. During the search of the motor home, the detectives illegally seized evidence, made observations and obtained statements from Mr. Westerfield.
...On February 4, 2002, at approximately 8:00 p.m., Sgt. John Wray, detective Cyndi Stetson, Jim Frazee and homicide team members searched and illegally processed the motor home, seized evidence and made observations without a warrant.
(At 8:00 p.m. Monday night, homicide officers were slowly getting involved. Had a body been found?)
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The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it does not have a specific timetable on when Boeing Co’s troubled 737 MAX jet would return to service after two fatal crashes (uk.reuters.com) Plus d'info...
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Matt West il y a un an 4
Looks like their KC-46 is having a similar problems. They don't know how long it will take for them to correct technical deficiencies:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/06/13/kc-46-refueling-system-flaws-will-take-years-to-fix-and-cost-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-gao-says/
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Kobe Hunte il y a un an 6
Boeing is in some pretty deep water. They need to resolve their problems, and fast.
alex hidveghy il y a un an 4
Well, both AAL and SWA have already made provisions to their planning for NOT having the MAX in service this summer. That’s pretty bad. Not to mention the MILLIONS in compensation and deferred orders. This is now a major deal for Boeing, no doubt about that.
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Brad Littlejohn il y a un an 2
Well, seeing how Airbus is taking the orders to the bank right now at the Paris Airshow, Boeing is in some serious trouble. I wouldn't be surprised if Boeing doesn't get any orders for any of the MAX series, and that's despite the fact that the MAX10 doesn't have the same problem that the B38M and B39M have.
Boeing is in a world of hurt now, and will be for quite some time.
Yes, wouldn’t be surprised at all.
In fact, I just saw a news headline that it has not taken any new orders (not sure if that’s any Boeing aircraft because I didn’t read the full article) for the SECOND STRAIGHT MONTH. that cannot be good in anyone’s book......
belzybob il y a un an 0
I bet they wish it was just water.....
john kilcher il y a un an 9
The Max 8 shouldn't have been awarded an airworthiness certificate. Enlarging the engines and changing the c.o.g was strike #1. Installing MCAS without proper training and/or being tight lipped of their existence was strike #2. The allowance of the FAA to authorize Boeing to self inspect this abortion was strike #3.
hornet135 il y a un an 1
The cg didn’t change, did it?
Edward Bardes il y a un an 5
The engines on the 737 MAX had to be installed further forward than on the 737NG to be able to fit under the wings, which needed to be angled slightly upward to accommodate the engines. That's what makes the plane prone to stalling, the difference in angle of the wings.
hornet135 il y a un an -7
There’s no engine angling issue or issue with being prone to stalling. Not sure where you got your information, but it’s misinformed.
Actually, there is. And it's been documented many times. But yes, the engines were so big that they had to move them on the wings, which caused a lot of the problems contributing to the AoA issues that caused MCAS to be needed, and the subsequent issues from that.
https://flightaware.com/squawks/link/1/recently/popular/72846/How_the_Boeing_737_Max_Disaster_Looks_to_a_Software_Developer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
Jim Myers il y a un an 5
You win the "Ignoramus of the internet" award today! Congratulations!
Nuance is clearly lost on everyone in this thread.
The original poster said that changing the cg was strike #1 with mounting the new engines. There is no indication the cg changed. The leap engines are about 800lbs heavier each and situated farther forward than the engines on the NG, but the tail cone was also extended a small amount, presumably to counteract this increased engine weight forward of but very near to the cg.
The issue is that the increased thrust of the new engines increased the pitch up moment at high thrust settings. Although the engine has a larger diameter, being mounted higher helps mitigate this effect and gives it a thrust line very close to that of the NG engines. The real problem is that with the engine nacelles being larger and further forward of the cg, they create far more lift at low airspeeds/high alpha than on the NG. This combined with the pitch up from the increased thrust means that in those high alpha/low airspeeds/high thrust situations the MAX handles differently than the NG.
The reason why MCAS was needed was to make the stick forces in these situations similar enough between the NG and MAX so that they could be deemed to handle the 'same' and thus operate on a single type certificate. MCAS is not truly for stall prevention even though many reports call it a "stall prevention system" or similar, but merely to keep the elevator stick forces within parameters defined by regulations and similar enough to that of the NG. This doesn't mean the MAX is any more prone to stall than anything else; it just means that in certain situations it handles differently enough to warrant a new system to get a single type certificate with the NG.
The MCAS implementation was flawed, but it's important to understand the underlying causes that necessitated MCAS.
djames225 il y a un an 1
The MAX 8/9 CG is nowhere near that of the NG. The thrust increase between a CFM56-7B27 and Leap 1-B is negligible, and the Leaps are almost 1k pounds heavier. The underlying cause is, as you said, the engine size moved forward and bigger nacells...thus moving the engines forward shifted CG. The MCAS is, in a sense, an anti stall device.
bentwing60 il y a un an 1
While I will readily agree that the Leap vs. Cfm-56 thrust differential is not that great, I would contend that by your own admission the CG moved forward with the leap engine, Not aft! the MCAS system is specifically designed to drive the nose down in a stall event, the same result as moving the CG forward. If the CG shift was the sole culprit of MCAS, it would have provided nose up trim! Check. H135 is spot on.
I never mentioned aft, and I was referring to H135's "There is no indication the cg changed." I also never mentioned CG was the reason for MCAS...bigger engines moved forward, and up, caused CG to change and bigger nacells, with shifted engines, provided unwanted lift to give a more nose up attitude! That more unwanted nose up attitude leading to a greater chance of a stall was 1 of the reasons MCAS was installed. Hence, I will say again the MCAS is, in a sense, an anti stall device.
Also if you read up on his first comment, he talked about engine angling. Edward did not mention engine angling, he mentioned the wing angle. T
hat was also "tweaked"
Just because the engines were moved forward and weigh more doesn’t mean that cg moved forward. That would be the case if nothing else changed, but landing gear were strengthened, nose gear extended, tail cone lengthened, etc.
There's a lot of design details we just don't know.
The nose gear was extended but the landing gear were not lengthened and the tail cone received no major increase. The reason the engines were moved forward and and up is because the landing gear did not allow sufficient enough clearance between them and the ground. If they had lengthened the landing gear, they would not fit into their designated flight retraction area, and Boeing obviously did not want to spend time developing a rotational gear strut.
If you take an aircraft, redistribute its weight and flight characteristics such as moving engine forward and up, you change CG. It would be similar to taking cargo and not properly distributing it in the hold...place more of it forward and the aircraft's CG changes.
Go back and read what I said, landing gear were strengthened, nose gear extended.
The point is that more could change the CG than just the engines, a fact that you seem to be blind to.
Yellow is NG, purple is the MAX.
https://leehamnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/737NG-vs-MAX-planform.png
djames225 il y a un an -1
I am not blind to anything but I am done with this conversation..I misread what you stated, but you seem to completely misread mine and bounce all over.
"The cg didn’t change, did it?" Yes it did
"There’s no engine angling issue" No on said anything about engines but they did say wings.
"Just because the engines were moved forward and weigh more doesn’t mean that cg moved forward." I never stipulated the CG moved forward, bentwings did yet you inferred I stated it. CG changed.
And that planform is old as the tailcone is not that big and the engines are farther forward than that
Dolf Brouwers il y a un an 2
I would like to see the reports of the test pilots at Boeing , they must have encountered this problem during the program and what did they do to circumvent. (solve it ) ?
According to a few reports, 1 from a former test pilot, "Boeing never flight-tested a scenario in which the AOA sensor malfunctioned."
not a good test program then
I am definitely a Boeing fan, but if they can't get the Max back into service quick and the 777 properly sorted out, I fear there might be a problem.
Now they have the issue with the leading edge slat tracks on the MAX and NG
And also new issues on the 787-9! What’s going on at Boeing?.....
Nothing that hasn't happened before.
I gotta say, flawed design issues of this magnitude is nothing that has ever happened at Boeing.
The worse that they have had to date outside of the supply issues for the B787 was the jackscrew issue with the B727 (though the MD80 and F27s also had the same issue; the B717 wasn't made at the time), and the B737 rudder issue (USA427) which caused Boeing to redesign the rudder and retrofit all B733s affected by the problem at Boeing's expense.
Outside of that, nothing relative to using Software to fix a hardware design flaw has ever happened before, especially of this magnitude.
The DC-10 had a bumpy start with the cargo door design problems, and the FAA grounded the plane after AA191 crashed. Airbus also had a rough start with its A320 program, and the aircraft garnered a lot of scrutiny following the crash of AF296 with its software that could override pilot inputs.
I wasn't just talking about Boeing.
Yes...the FAA grounded the plane after the first crash, but the design problem was not intentional and it was a hardware "fix".
After the investigation into AF296, the probable cause was "very low flyover height, lower than surrounding obstacles; speed very slow and reducing to reach maximum possible angle of attack; engines speed at flight idle; and late application of go-around power." Some questioned the computers role, but it did not want nose up attitude at such a slow speed and low altitude. And if I remember correctly, Airbus did not have to do a software update to the A320 family.
So no, using software to correct a hardware design flaw, and in itself, the software being flawed, has never happened before.
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Home Abuse Known Alabama Clergy Abusers
Known North Carolina Clergy Abusers
Known Clergy Sexual Abusers in Arizona
Known Alabama Clergy Abusers
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Over the last year, Catholic Dioceses from across the United States have released lists of known clergy sexual abusers. There’s no greater breach of trust than when someone in a position of power and authority sexually abuses someone. These acts have devastating effects on victims. Forester Haynie is an advocate for victims of clergy abuse as well as for anyone abused by a person in a position of power. Already, more than 3,000 civil lawsuits have been filed on behalf of victims of clergy abuse. Here are the names of known abusers in the state of Alabama:
Susai Arul (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1989-1990.
Nicholas Vic Bendillo (DECEASED) Date of Misconduct: 1964-1989.
Charles Bordenca (died in 2017). Bordenca was removed from active ministry in the Birmingham diocese in 1989.
Joseph Brown (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1965-1968.
Kevin Cooke. Cooke was removed from ministry in 2002.
Charles V. Cross (died in 2010). Cross was removed from ministry in 1985 and forced to retire without privileges in 2002.
Thomas J Cullen (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1950s.
Vernon Dahmen (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: Mid 1970s to early 1980s.
Timothy Evans (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1998.
Jonathan (John) Franklin (died in 1986). Franklin was removed from ministry in the mid-1980s.
Gregory Furjanic (DECEASED) Date of Misconduct: 1987.
Joseph Gill (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: Late 1960s.
Robert Grabowski (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1979.
John Hardman (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1972-1978.
James A. Havens (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1986.
Timothy Keppel (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1977-1981.
Anthony Kiel (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1955-1958.
Cordell Lang (DECEASED). Was removed from ministry based upon accusations submitted to the Archdiocese of Mobile. A civil court jury, however, found in his favor.
Edward Lawlor (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1972.
Edward A. Leary (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1970-1972.
Roger Lott (died in 2011). Lott was removed from ministry in 1997.
Ralph McGarry (DECEASED) Date of Misconduct: 1960-1961.
Gerald McMahon (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1967-1970.
Robert Michele (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE) Date of Misconduct:1963.
Patrick J. L. Nicholson (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1976.
Archdiocesan Deacon Robert L. Nouwen (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE) Convicted of possession of child pornography Date of Misconduct: 2012.
Norman Rogge (DECEASED) Date of Misconduct: 1979-1981.
John Rutledge (DECEASED) Date of Misconduct: 1968.
Barry Ryan (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1990s.
Johnny Savoie. Date of Misconduct: 1995.
Arthur C. Schrenger (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: Late 1960s to 1982.
John Alex Sherlock (DECEASED). Date of Misconduct: 1966-1982.
Edward Eugene Smith (PROHIBITED FROM MINISTRY IN ARCHDIOCESE). Date of Misconduct: 1984.
Frances Stone, Date of Misconduct: 1998. Arrested 10/9/13, charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
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Lots of the fluid dynamics is done through OpenFOAM and VisualCFD https://www.openfoam.com/products/visualcfd.php
As for solid geometry simulations, I would also consider something like PTC Creo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC_Creo_Elements/Pro
(I worked on these kinds of solid models for over 10 years and learned how to animate them in real-time through external software. )
So there are two aspects to this: (1) doing the morphing, articulations, and rotations of solid body features, which is what PTC CREO is good at, and (2) doing the visualization of nullschool-like features of fluid turbulence, etc, which I don't have as much experience with. Of course, leveraging all the gaming software essentially combines the two because they need all the interesting articulation and morphing motions and fluid scenarios.
Comment Source:Lots of the fluid dynamics is done through OpenFOAM and VisualCFD https://www.openfoam.com/products/visualcfd.php As for solid geometry simulations, I would also consider something like PTC Creo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC_Creo_Elements/Pro (I worked on these kinds of solid models for over 10 years and learned how to animate them in real-time through external software. ) So there are two aspects to this: (1) doing the morphing, articulations, and rotations of solid body features, which is what PTC CREO is good at, and (2) doing the visualization of nullschool-like features of fluid turbulence, etc, which I don't have as much experience with. Of course, leveraging all the gaming software essentially combines the two because they need all the interesting articulation and morphing motions and fluid scenarios.
JimStuttard
Thanks for the detailed answers. This will keep me busy! I've not kept up with CAD since 1991 when I worked in an AEC language called Eagle.
Re your 2005 observation: NPL accepted the original paper so an update to their model must fit their T&C scope. If not, I bet the authors would want to know.
Comment Source:Thanks for the detailed answers. This will keep me busy! I've not kept up with CAD since 1991 when I worked in an AEC language called Eagle. Re your 2005 observation: NPL accepted the original paper so an update to their model must fit their T&C scope. If not, I bet the authors would want to know.
"Re your 2005 observation: NPL accepted the original paper so an update to their model must fit their T&C scope. If not, I bet the authors would want to know."
The scientific discussion is fascinating as is -- I have my model published so can wait it out. What mystifies me is how they can make assertions on what appears to be a 2nd-order effect (the 2016 QBO anomaly) when they clearly don't have a good handle on what's causing the primary oscillation in the first place. In other words, how can they be certain it is an anomaly unless they are certain that the underlying phenomena is deterministic? The best explanation that they are able to come up with is that the anomaly is an additional transient bifurcation of the original bifurcation
Comment Source:Jim said: > "Re your 2005 observation: NPL accepted the original paper so an update to their model must fit their T&C scope. If not, I bet the authors would want to know." The scientific discussion is fascinating as is -- I have my model published so can wait it out. What mystifies me is how they can make assertions on what appears to be a 2nd-order effect (the 2016 QBO anomaly) when they clearly don't have a good handle on what's causing the primary oscillation in the first place. In other words, how can they be certain it is an anomaly unless they are certain that the underlying phenomena is deterministic? The best explanation that they are able to come up with is that the anomaly is an additional transient bifurcation of the original bifurcation
Comment Source:+1
Interesting data from this paper on the equatorial-only Semi-Annual Oscillation (SAO) of the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere wind pattern.
[1] T. Hirooka, T. Ohata, and N. Eguchi, “Modulation of the Semiannual Oscillation Induced by Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events,” in ISWA2016, Tokyo, Japan, 2016, p. 16.
The SAO flips by 180 degrees between the stratosphere (the SSAO) and the mesosphere (the MSAO). You can see this in the upper panel below where the intense westerlies (in RED) occur during the beginning and middle of each year for the MSAO, and they occur between these times (Spring and Fall) for the SSAO. The direction times are complementary for the easterlies in BLUE. At altitudes between the MSAO and SSSAO, the strength of the SAO is significantly reduced as you can see in the lower panel showing the spectral lines. The QBO starts at altitudes below the SSAO.
This may be explained by the Laplace's Tidal Equation analytic solution that I have been applying to the ENSO and QBO models.
The equation applied is \( \sin( A \sin(4 \pi t + \phi) + \theta(z)) ) \)
If the LTE phase varies in altitude (z) due to differing characteristics of the atmospheric density, the sense of the sinusoidal modulation will flip. This is for a value of A that is large enough to cause a strong modulation. For phases halfway between where the sign flips, the modulation bifurcates the semi-annual oscillation such that the 1/2-year period disappears and is replaced by (in-theory) a 1/4-year or 90-day cycle. Can kind of see that in the power-spectra above.
So below is the theoretical LTE plot alongside the paper's plot. The contour colors don't quite match up, and I don't have Mathematica any longer to get a matching color density plot
Comment Source:Interesting data from this paper on the equatorial-only Semi-Annual Oscillation (SAO) of the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere wind pattern. [1] T. Hirooka, T. Ohata, and N. Eguchi, “Modulation of the Semiannual Oscillation Induced by Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events,” in ISWA2016, Tokyo, Japan, 2016, p. 16. The SAO flips by 180 degrees between the stratosphere (the SSAO) and the mesosphere (the MSAO). You can see this in the upper panel below where the intense westerlies (in RED) occur during the beginning and middle of each year for the MSAO, and they occur between these times (Spring and Fall) for the SSAO. The direction times are complementary for the easterlies in BLUE. At altitudes between the MSAO and SSSAO, the strength of the SAO is significantly reduced as you can see in the lower panel showing the spectral lines. The QBO starts at altitudes below the SSAO.  This may be explained by the Laplace's Tidal Equation analytic solution that I have been applying to the ENSO and QBO models. The equation applied is \\( \sin( A \sin(4 \pi t + \phi) + \theta(z)) ) \\) If the LTE phase varies in altitude (z) due to differing characteristics of the atmospheric density, the sense of the sinusoidal modulation will flip. This is for a value of *A* that is large enough to cause a strong modulation. For phases halfway between where the sign flips, the modulation bifurcates the semi-annual oscillation such that the 1/2-year period disappears and is replaced by (in-theory) a 1/4-year or 90-day cycle. Can kind of see that in the power-spectra above. So below is the theoretical LTE plot alongside the paper's plot. The contour colors don't quite match up, and I don't have Mathematica any longer to get a matching color density plot 
This opinion piece by Hossenfelder in the NYT makes the claim that "Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math" of modeling the global climate:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opinion/climate-change-supercomputers.html
I recall that Hossenfelder wrote a book called "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray"
"Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. "
I don't know if the latter helps explain the former view.
Next week's geophysics fluid dynamics conference presentations illustrates the potential simplicity
Infinite U(1) Symmetry of the Quasi-Linear Approximation : "Particle-relabeling symmetry of inviscid fluid equations, equivalent in the case of incompressible fluids to the infinite dimensional group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, is broken by the quasi-linear approximation. Instead the equations of motion are invariant under an infinite U(1) symmetry as the phase of each wave may be independently varied, reflecting the absence of wave + wave —> wave interactions. " "The infinite U(1) symmetry of linear waves manifests, by Noether’s theorem, as separate conservation of the pseudomomenta for each zonal wavenumber. The pseudomomenta are approximately conserved for quasilinear dynamics due to the separation in time scales between the evolution of the zonal mean and the waves. Whether or not an action principle or a Hamiltonian can be found that generates the quasilinear dynamics remains an open question; if one can be found then it should be possible to find exactly conserved pseudomomenta as the quasilinear system retains the infinite U(1) symmetry. Pseudomomenta are not conserved by the fully nonlinear dynamics"
U(1) corresponds to the unitary group of dimension 1, i.e. complex numbers of norm 1 residing on the unit circle. This is a global symmetry and corresponds to conserved quantities via Noether's theorem.
Not surprising that the solution used in ENSO and QBO is appropriately sin(a f(t) + θ). This appears fairly elegant to me, resulting from the real (observable) part of the complex number.
And also this presentation from the conference:
The Kelvin and Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves on the Spherical Earth : "While the theory developed by Matsuno for the equatorial \beta-plane allows for exact analytic solutions, the corresponding theory developed by Longuet-Higgins on the sphere can only be solved analytically at some asymptotic limits. In the present work we revisit the Kelvin and MRG waves on the sphere using two complimentary forms of analysis: (i) Special ad hoc analytic solutions that yield accurate approximations for the latitude-dependent amplitudes and dispersion relations of the Kelvin and MRG waves over a wide range of the parameters space. (ii) A Schrodinger formulation that provides a classification for the waves in terms of the mode numbers of the associated Sturm-Liouville problem. "
The ENSO and QBO solution above comes directly from transforming the complete Navier-Stokes through the Laplace's Tidal Equation linearizing simplification into a Sturm-Liouville formulation that could be analytically solved.
They might be getting close, perhaps a year or two they will catch on.
Comment Source:This opinion piece by Hossenfelder in the NYT makes the claim that "Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math" of modeling the global climate: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opinion/climate-change-supercomputers.html I recall that Hossenfelder wrote a book called "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" > "Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. " I don't know if the latter helps explain the former view. Next week's geophysics fluid dynamics conference presentations illustrates the potential simplicity > [*Infinite U(1) Symmetry of the Quasi-Linear Approximation*](https://ams.confex.com/ams/22FLUID/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/360248 ) : > "Particle-relabeling symmetry of inviscid fluid equations, equivalent in the case of incompressible fluids to the infinite dimensional group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, is broken by the quasi-linear approximation. Instead the equations of motion are invariant under an infinite U(1) symmetry as the phase of each wave may be independently varied, reflecting the absence of wave + wave —> wave interactions. " > "The infinite U(1) symmetry of linear waves manifests, by Noether’s theorem, as separate conservation of the pseudomomenta for each zonal wavenumber. The pseudomomenta are approximately conserved for quasilinear dynamics due to the separation in time scales between the evolution of the zonal mean and the waves. Whether or not an action principle or a Hamiltonian can be found that generates the quasilinear dynamics remains an open question; if one can be found then it should be possible to find exactly conserved pseudomomenta as the quasilinear system retains the infinite U(1) symmetry. Pseudomomenta are not conserved by the fully nonlinear dynamics" >  U(1) corresponds to the unitary group of dimension 1, i.e. complex numbers of norm 1 residing on the unit circle. This is a global symmetry and corresponds to conserved quantities via Noether's theorem. Not surprising that the solution used in ENSO and QBO is appropriately sin(a f(t) + θ). This appears fairly elegant to me, resulting from the real (observable) part of the complex number. And also this presentation from the conference: > [*The Kelvin and Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves on the Spherical Earth*](https://ams.confex.com/ams/22FLUID/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/359154) : >"While the theory developed by Matsuno for the equatorial \beta-plane allows for exact analytic solutions, the corresponding theory developed by Longuet-Higgins on the sphere can only be solved analytically at some asymptotic limits. In the present work we revisit the Kelvin and MRG waves on the sphere using two complimentary forms of analysis: (i) Special ad hoc analytic solutions that yield accurate approximations for the latitude-dependent amplitudes and dispersion relations of the Kelvin and MRG waves over a wide range of the parameters space. (ii) A Schrodinger formulation that provides a classification for the waves in terms of the mode numbers of the associated Sturm-Liouville problem. " The ENSO and QBO solution above comes directly from transforming the complete Navier-Stokes through the Laplace's Tidal Equation linearizing simplification into a Sturm-Liouville formulation that could be analytically solved. They might be getting close, perhaps a year or two they will catch on.
A recent climate science review paper covers "Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences", Runge et al 2019, Nature Communications
Unfortunately they do not describe common-mode factor causation. I took one of their figures and added that class of mechanism in yellow
Common-mode factors are very common and well-known to experimentalists and trouble-shooters. In the figure, a mechanism linking two regions, which is often classified as a teleconnection may actually be common-mode -- in this case a correlation due to a shared lunar forcing that may tie the regions together.
So let's try a particular geospatial correlation. If we take the left region and shift it to the ENSO region in the Pacific and the right region to AMO in the Atlantic, we can evaluate the common mode between these two oceanic indices.
These two indices on first glance show no time correlation (even with lag shifts applied) -- the scatter plot correlation looks like a blob.
But what happens when we apply the same forcing used in modeling ENSO and then apply that to an AMO model? The Laplace's Tidal Equation (LTE) formulation is essentially normalized to sin (E f(t) + θ) for ENSO and sin (A f(t) + φ) for AMO, where the E and A factors calibrate the distinct standing wave number boundary conditions for the two regions, and f(t) is the common forcing.
Because of the way that the iteration works in fitting the model to the data (need to fiddle the parameters to avoid getting stuck at local minima) the two forcings aren't precisely the same, R=0.96, but can be considered to be virtually aligned.
The fitted models to the ENSO and AMO with common forcing are below
So the distinction between the two oscillating dipoles resides completely in the LTE sinusoidal modulation applied (the E and A factors), which differs for the two by a non-trivial amount. In other words, this is a single degree of freedom adjustment corresponding to a global wavenumber of 5 for ENSO and 4 for AMO.
The causative mechanism is thus simply a scaling in LTE space accounting for the difference in the geometry of the Atlantic and Pacific basins for a common-mode lunisolar forcing. As quoted in the previous post
"physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones."
This is as natural and elegant as it can get -- just a twist added to conventional tidal analysis
N.B. If you think it odd that a single parameter modification can change completely the character of a solution, consider the case of how band structures in materials can change completely with slight lattice transformations. This has a related explanation in terms of Brillouin zone folding. Solid state physicists treat this complication as a cost of doing business
Comment Source:A recent climate science review paper covers "Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences", Runge et al 2019, Nature Communications Unfortunately they do not describe common-mode factor causation. I took one of their figures and added that class of mechanism in yellow  Common-mode factors are very common and well-known to experimentalists and trouble-shooters. In the figure, a mechanism linking two regions, which is often classified as a teleconnection may actually be common-mode -- in this case a correlation due to a shared lunar forcing that may tie the regions together. So let's try a particular geospatial correlation. If we take the left region and shift it to the ENSO region in the Pacific and the right region to AMO in the Atlantic, we can evaluate the common mode between these two oceanic indices. These two indices on first glance show no time correlation (even with lag shifts applied) -- the scatter plot correlation looks like a blob.  But what happens when we apply the same forcing used in modeling ENSO and then apply that to an AMO model? The Laplace's Tidal Equation (LTE) formulation is essentially normalized to *sin (E f(t) + θ)* for ENSO and *sin (A f(t) + φ)* for AMO, where the *E* and *A* factors calibrate the distinct standing wave number boundary conditions for the two regions, and *f(t)* is the common forcing. Because of the way that the iteration works in fitting the model to the data (need to fiddle the parameters to avoid getting stuck at local minima) the two forcings aren't precisely the same, R=0.96, but can be considered to be virtually aligned.  The fitted models to the ENSO and AMO with common forcing are below  So the distinction between the two oscillating dipoles resides completely in the LTE sinusoidal modulation applied (the *E* and *A* factors), which differs for the two by a non-trivial amount. In other words, this is a single degree of freedom adjustment corresponding to a global wavenumber of 5 for ENSO and 4 for AMO.  The causative mechanism is thus simply a scaling in LTE space accounting for the difference in the geometry of the Atlantic and Pacific basins for a common-mode lunisolar forcing. As quoted in the previous post > "physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones." This is as natural and elegant as it can get -- just a twist added to conventional tidal analysis --- N.B. If you think it odd that a single parameter modification can change completely the character of a solution, consider the case of how band structures in materials can change completely with slight lattice transformations. This has a related explanation in terms of Brillouin zone folding. Solid state physicists treat this complication as a cost of doing business 
Finding this common-mode forcing between ENSO and AMO is either the correct scientific interpretation or the most unlikely rabbit hole to fall into. There is always a concern with regards to over-fitting. The ENSO fit could be fortuitous, based on adjusting the parameters and tweaking for the best alignment between data and model. Yet using the same set of parameters as a starting point is squared as unlikely if each process was based on random chance.
Comment Source:Finding this common-mode forcing between ENSO and AMO is either the correct scientific interpretation or the most unlikely rabbit hole to fall into. There is always a concern with regards to over-fitting. The ENSO fit could be fortuitous, based on adjusting the parameters and tweaking for the best alignment between data and model. Yet using the same set of parameters as a starting point is *squared* as unlikely if each process was based on random chance.
Using the same approach on the other major climate index, the PDO, a pattern is starting to emerge. The PDO has a significant LTE sin() modulation that is the same as ENSO, but also has a strong factor with a wavenumber that is 5 times as rapid. In contrast the AMO wavenumber modulation is 3 times as fast as ENSO (with a much weaker modulation that's the same as ENSO).
The odd-number multiplicative scaling may be related to properties of inversion symmetry in the medium. So if there was an even harmonic among the standing waves, it would be imbalanced with respect to positive and negative excursions.
Again, the tidal forcing matches to a correlation above 0.99 for years greater than 1920. The AMO fit extends back to 1856 so the mean forcing appears to stay closer to zero for those years, so is flatter.
Comment Source:Using the same approach on the other major climate index, the PDO, a pattern is starting to emerge. The PDO has a significant LTE sin() modulation that is the same as ENSO, but also has a strong factor with a wavenumber that is 5 times as rapid. In contrast the AMO wavenumber modulation is 3 times as fast as ENSO (with a much weaker modulation that's the same as ENSO).  The odd-number multiplicative scaling may be related to properties of [inversion symmetry in the medium](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/127531/lack-of-inversion-symmetry-in-crystal). So if there was an even harmonic among the standing waves, it would be imbalanced with respect to positive and negative excursions. Again, the tidal forcing matches to a correlation above 0.99 for years greater than 1920. The AMO fit extends back to 1856 so the mean forcing appears to stay closer to zero for those years, so is flatter. 
I'm working a model of one of the fastest ocean oscillations, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The NAO can show up to 2 strong cycles per year in comparison to ENSO, which has El Nino peaks every 2 to 7 years
It appears that the model for NAO is not as sensitive to annual or semi-annual impulses like all the other behaviors (ENSO, QBO, PDO, AMO, IOP) require for modeling. So instead of an impulse, it appears to more directly correspond to monthly tidal variations.
This is promising. The time-series is dense enough that cross-validation may work well here.
New/Edited follows
This is a cross-validation, trying to overfit an interval from 1980 to 2000 and observing how the out-of-band intervals respond -- quite stable.
The non-impulsed lunisolar tidal forcing is identical for ENSO and NAO, which removes many degrees of freedom from the fitting process.
The LTE modulation for NAO is quite strong, approximately that of used in PDO in the prior comment #309. Perhaps this is expected as both NAO and PDO are northern/higher latitude behaviors
Comment Source:I'm working a model of one of the fastest ocean oscillations, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The NAO can show up to 2 strong cycles per year in comparison to ENSO, which has El Nino peaks every 2 to 7 years It appears that the model for NAO is not as sensitive to annual or semi-annual impulses like all the other behaviors (ENSO, QBO, PDO, AMO, IOP) require for modeling. So instead of an impulse, it appears to more directly correspond to monthly tidal variations.  This is promising. The time-series is dense enough that cross-validation may work well here. --- *New/Edited follows* This is a cross-validation, trying to overfit an interval from 1980 to 2000 and observing how the out-of-band intervals respond -- quite stable.  The non-impulsed lunisolar tidal forcing is identical for ENSO and NAO, which removes many degrees of freedom from the fitting process.  The LTE modulation for NAO is quite strong, approximately that of used in PDO in the prior comment #309. Perhaps this is expected as both NAO and PDO are northern/higher latitude behaviors 
Pierre Prado
interesting!thanks
Comment Source:interesting!thanks
It's the two-layers-of-complexity category. Impossible to figure out unless one layer reveals itself.
Longer post here: https://geoenergymath.com/2019/08/04/north-atlantic-oscillation/
Comment Source:It's the two-layers-of-complexity category. Impossible to figure out unless one layer reveals itself. Longer post here: https://geoenergymath.com/2019/08/04/north-atlantic-oscillation/
Random observation, or an aside: Tierney, Haywood, Feng, Bhattacharya, and Otto-Bliesner have a paper accepted in GRL, which addresses, in the negative, the idea from Fedorov, et al (2006, 2010) of "permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch". The paper is:
J. E. Tierney, A. M. Haywood, R. Feng, T. Bhattacharya, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, Pliocene warmth consistent with greenhouse gas forcing, Geophysical Research Letters (2019).
Comment Source:Random observation, or an aside: Tierney, Haywood, Feng, Bhattacharya, and Otto-Bliesner have a paper accepted in _GRL_, which addresses, in the negative, the idea from Fedorov, _et_ _al_ (2006, 2010) of "permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch". The paper is: J. E. Tierney, A. M. Haywood, R. Feng, T. Bhattacharya, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, [Pliocene warmth consistent with greenhouse gas forcing](https://sci-hub.tw/10.1029/2019GL083802), _[Geophysical Research Letters](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19448007)_ (2019).
Interesting paper in the sense of I don't understand what a permanent El Nino even means. Since ENSO is conceptually a dipole and always reverts to a mean value of zero, how can it ever balance out to being predominately El Nino over La Nina?
Unless what they are saying is that warmer El Nino peaks are the quiescent state of the system and that the cold La Nina valleys were thus less severe. That is, the sloshing gradient was lower, resulting in an overall greater distribution of warmer surface water along the equator and thus less cold water brought up from the depths from a steeper thermocline gradient.
From the paper:
"Previous work suggested a low zonal sea-surface temperature (SST) gradient in the tropical Pacific during the Pliocene, the so-called “permanent El Ni˜no.”
Comment Source:Interesting paper in the sense of I don't understand what a permanent El Nino even means. Since ENSO is conceptually a dipole and always reverts to a mean value of zero, how can it ever balance out to being predominately El Nino over La Nina? Unless what they are saying is that warmer El Nino peaks are the quiescent state of the system and that the cold La Nina valleys were thus less severe. That is, the sloshing gradient was lower, resulting in an overall greater distribution of warmer surface water along the equator and thus less cold water brought up from the depths from a steeper thermocline gradient. From the paper: > "Previous work suggested a low zonal sea-surface temperature (SST) gradient in the tropical Pacific during the Pliocene, the so-called “permanent El Ni˜no.”
One index that I haven't looked at is the Indian Ocean Dipole and its gradient measure the Dipole Mode Index. This is important because it is correlated with India subcontinent monsoons. It also shows a correlation to ENSO, which is quite apparent by comparing specific peak positions, with a correlation coefficient of 0.2.
I think the reason the correlation isn't higher is that there is likely another standing wave solution that complements the major standing wave that stretches across the equatorial Pacific. The latter contributes the majority of ENSO but only a portion of IOD, so the mystery standing wave is what generates the busier cyclic behavior o IOD.
Like with the other oceanic indices, it has a similar tidal forcing to ENSO, with R^2>0.95.
What differs from ENSO is the LTE modulation, of which IOD consists of a background similar to ENSO, but also a faster modulation that is 3 to 4 that of the background.
The fit over the entire time span is good, with the Fourier spectrum in the lower panel.
So far, the following indices highlighted in yellow have been modeled. The QBO is the only atmospheric behavior, and it has a distinct tidal forcing. Each of ENSO, PDO, AMO, NAO, and now IOD have a nearly identical set of fundamental forced tidal cycles but distinct standing mode modulations.
Comment Source:One index that I haven't looked at is the [Indian Ocean Dipole](https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/gcos_wgsp/Timeseries/DMI/) and its gradient measure the [Dipole Mode Index](http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/research/d1/iod/dmi.html). This is important because it is correlated with India subcontinent monsoons. It also shows a correlation to ENSO, which is quite apparent by comparing specific peak positions, with a correlation coefficient of 0.2. I think the reason the correlation isn't higher is that there is likely another standing wave solution that complements the major standing wave that stretches across the equatorial Pacific. The latter contributes the majority of ENSO but only a portion of IOD, so the mystery standing wave is what generates the busier cyclic behavior o IOD. Like with the other oceanic indices, it has a similar tidal forcing to ENSO, with R^2>0.95.  What differs from ENSO is the LTE modulation, of which IOD consists of a background similar to ENSO, but also a faster modulation that is 3 to 4 that of the background.  The fit over the entire time span is good, with the Fourier spectrum in the lower panel.  So far, the following indices highlighted in yellow have been modeled. The QBO is the only atmospheric behavior, and it has a distinct tidal forcing. Each of ENSO, PDO, AMO, NAO, and now IOD have a nearly identical set of fundamental forced tidal cycles but distinct standing mode modulations. 
Very, very cool!
Comment Source:Very, very cool!
I wonder if the 3-4x frequency modulation of the IOD relative to ENSO might be related to some sort of "shudder" due to the various chokepoints around the straights of Malacca which iirc were adduced as contributing the slowdown of the increased SST in the last decade?
Comment Source:I wonder if the 3-4x frequency modulation of the IOD relative to ENSO might be related to some sort of "shudder" due to the various chokepoints around the straights of Malacca which iirc were adduced as contributing the slowdown of the increased SST in the last decade?
Thanks, I'm next working on the PNA, which is a Pacific North America oscillation which stretches across the continent
The results are looking good but the tidal equation (LTE) modulation is extremely large
Comment Source:Thanks, I'm next working on the PNA, which is a [Pacific North America oscillation](https://climate.ncsu.edu/climate/patterns/pna) which stretches across the continent  The results are looking good but the tidal equation (LTE) modulation is extremely large
Jim asked:
"I wonder if the 3-4x frequency modulation of the IOD relative to ENSO might be related to some sort of "shudder" due to the various chokepoints around the straights of Malacca which iirc were adduced as contributing the slowdown of the increased SST in the last decade?"
Th concept of LTE modulation is somewhat counter-intuitive. It's not really a modulation in frequency but a modulation of amplitude level, which is an indirect frequency multiplier in that it introduces harmonics. So when the multiplier is 3 to 4, harmonics are definitely introduced but I am not certain if these change the frequency by 3-4.
In this case, it appears as if there is a North/South aspect to the IOD definition and that may have an impact on the higher multiplying factor. This would contribute likely a shorter bounding waveguide in that dimension, which would create a tighter standing wave and thus higher frequency standing wave harmonics. The definition states: "Intensity of the IOD is represented by anomalous SST gradient between the western equatorial Indian Ocean (50oE-70oE and 10oS-10oN) and the south eastern equatorial Indian Ocean (90oE-110oE and 10oS-0oN). This gradient is named as Dipole Mode Index (DMI)."
I am thinking along those lines, because the multiplier is also very high for the NAO, and that has a significant North/South aspect to the dipole definition.
In general, what I am characterizing as the LTE multiplier may require a different vocabulary to describe the resultant behavior. Since there is nothing in the research literature that is even close to this solution, there is no lingo or common understanding to draw from.
The PNA also has a large LTE multiplier as I mentioned in the last comment. From Wikipedia: "The positive phase of the PNA pattern features above-average barometric pressure heights in the vicinity of Hawaii and over the inter-mountain region of North America, and below-average heights located south of the Aleutian Islands and over the southeastern United States. The PNA pattern is associated with strong fluctuations in the strength and location of the East Asian jet stream."
This is the tidal forcing for the PNA model and once again it matches that to ENSO
This is the fit on a relatively short training interval, which shows good cross-validation out-of-band. What the strong LTE modulation does is bring the peaks into strong relief
The dipoles that are left to do are the arctic (AO) and antarctic (SAM). I looked at the AO before and that has very high frequency content, to the point it almost looks like white noise. I am not sure what kind of success I will have in characterizing it via the model.
Comment Source:Jim asked: > "I wonder if the 3-4x frequency modulation of the IOD relative to ENSO might be related to some sort of "shudder" due to the various chokepoints around the straights of Malacca which iirc were adduced as contributing the slowdown of the increased SST in the last decade?" Th concept of LTE modulation is somewhat counter-intuitive. It's not really a modulation in frequency but a modulation of amplitude level, which is an indirect frequency multiplier in that it introduces harmonics. So when the multiplier is 3 to 4, harmonics are definitely introduced but I am not certain if these change the frequency by 3-4. In this case, it appears as if there is a North/South aspect to the IOD definition and that may have an impact on the higher multiplying factor. This would contribute likely a shorter bounding waveguide in that dimension, which would create a tighter standing wave and thus higher frequency standing wave harmonics. The definition states: *"Intensity of the IOD is represented by anomalous SST gradient between the western equatorial Indian Ocean (50oE-70oE and 10oS-10oN) and the south eastern equatorial Indian Ocean (90oE-110oE and 10oS-0oN). This gradient is named as Dipole Mode Index (DMI)."*  I am thinking along those lines, because the multiplier is also very high for the NAO, and that has a significant North/South aspect to the dipole definition.  In general, what I am characterizing as the LTE multiplier may require a different vocabulary to describe the resultant behavior. Since there is nothing in the research literature that is even close to this solution, there is no lingo or common understanding to draw from. --- The PNA also has a large LTE multiplier as I mentioned in the last comment. From Wikipedia: *"The positive phase of the PNA pattern features above-average barometric pressure heights in the vicinity of Hawaii and over the inter-mountain region of North America, and below-average heights located south of the Aleutian Islands and over the southeastern United States. The PNA pattern is associated with strong fluctuations in the strength and location of the East Asian jet stream."*  This is the tidal forcing for the PNA model and once again it matches that to ENSO  This is the fit on a relatively short training interval, which shows good cross-validation out-of-band. What the strong LTE modulation does is bring the peaks into strong relief  The dipoles that are left to do are the arctic (AO) and antarctic (SAM). I looked at the AO before and that has very high frequency content, to the point it almost looks like white noise. I am not sure what kind of success I will have in characterizing it via the model.
What's also interesting is that the PNA (Pacific-North America) and now AO (Arctic Oscillation) can be easily fit from a perturbation of the NAO model. These are all northern latitude behaviors as highlighted in orange below.
This is the common tidal forcing for each of these models, with the LTE modulation in the lower panel. The tidal forcing has a strong semi-annual factor, as with the QBO.
The LTE modulation differs subtly between the three, as the multipliers are slightly different for NAO and AO and within ~15% for PNA. They are in sync at the yellow arrows shown in the lower panel. The LTE modulation is dependent on the fundamental spatial wavenumber defining the dipole, which should be different for each of the regions.
These are the fits for each of the time-series
You can see how the NAO and AO are vaguely similar and the the PNA is similar but flipped in polarity. It is known that the QBO has a connection to the polar vortex, so the semi-annual commonality between QBO and AO makes some sense.
The only major index left is the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) index associated with the Antarctic Oscillation.
Comment Source:What's also interesting is that the PNA (Pacific-North America) and now [AO (Arctic Oscillation)](https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/teleconnections/ao/) can be easily fit from a perturbation of the NAO model. These are all northern latitude behaviors as highlighted in orange below.  This is the common tidal forcing for each of these models, with the LTE modulation in the lower panel. The tidal forcing has a strong semi-annual factor, as with the QBO.  The LTE modulation differs subtly between the three, as the multipliers are slightly different for NAO and AO and within ~15% for PNA. They are in sync at the yellow arrows shown in the lower panel. The LTE modulation is dependent on the fundamental spatial wavenumber defining the dipole, which should be different for each of the regions. These are the fits for each of the time-series  You can see how the NAO and AO are vaguely similar and the the PNA is similar but flipped in polarity. It is known that the QBO has a connection to the polar vortex, so the semi-annual commonality between QBO and AO makes some sense. The only major index left is the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) index associated with the [Antarctic Oscillation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_oscillation).
The SAM index (data source) is the last to do on the map
Based of the complexity of these waveforms, this should have taken a long time to adequately fit a model if starting from scratch. Yet, since the tidal forcing is nearly identical for each, the computation took no time at all.
The LTE modulation was close to that of the complementary AO, as it retains the same phase over a greater range of forcing levels (indicated by the yellow arrow):
The fit is very good (Fourier spectrum comparison in lower panel)
As a bottom-line, these climate indices are likely not related as teleconnections (which is the current consensus idea), but more likely by a common-mode forcing . The set is synchronized by the common lunisolar tidal forces operating across the earth and individually distinguished by the standing wave constraints of each region.
Moreover, it's highly unlikely that the quality of these model fits is due to overfitting as there are very few DOF available given the common-mode forcing constraint shared by each model.
Comment Source:The [SAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_oscillation) index ([data source](https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/marshall-southern-annular-mode-sam-index-station-based)) is the last to do on the map  Based of the complexity of these waveforms, this should have taken a long time to adequately fit a model if starting from scratch. Yet, since the tidal forcing is nearly identical for each, the computation took no time at all.  The LTE modulation was close to that of the complementary AO, as it retains the same phase over a greater range of forcing levels (indicated by the yellow arrow):  The fit is very good (Fourier spectrum comparison in lower panel)  As a bottom-line, these climate indices are likely not related as teleconnections (which is the current consensus idea), but more likely by a common-mode forcing . The set is synchronized by the common lunisolar tidal forces operating across the earth and individually distinguished by the standing wave constraints of each region. Moreover, it's highly unlikely that the quality of these model fits is due to overfitting as there are very few DOF available given the common-mode forcing constraint shared by each model.
Just wow! Heading for the denoument I'm looking forward to trying to explain this in a suitable pop version for my ecomath mates. :)
Comment Source:Just wow! Heading for the denoument I'm looking forward to trying to explain this in a suitable pop version for my ecomath mates. :)
Jim, Appreciate the interest as always.
I'm trying to relate the LTE modulation factor to something akin to a Reynolds number (Re) or a Richardson number (Ri), which makes it a single scalar that describes the breaking or folding of the waves (like a turbulence factor but not chaotic) and to the primary wavenumber.
Right now the trend of the LTE value is closer to zero if the climate index is measured close to the equator (QBO is the lowest) and it tends to increase as the index moves away from the equator. The ordering is about like this:
QBO < ENSO < (AMO ~ IOD) < PDO < ( NAO ~ AO ~ SAM ~ PNA)
The wavenumber of QBO approaches zero because the standing wave encircles the equator and cycles in unison. Correspondingly the wavenumber values may be required to increase away from the equator -- which is forced to be smaller closer to the poles -- but it also may be due to the specific waveguide bounding box of the index. For example, the equatorial Pacific is widest and thus ENSO has the lowest primary wavenumber next to QBO.
Added for entertainment. This is a typical YouTube search for "fluid motion in glycerine"
Notice how the fluid flow is complete reversible in the sense that all the dispersion observed "undisperses" on reversing direction. This is a consequence of the low Reynolds number limit -- via the highly viscous glycerine media -- of the Navier-Stokes equation.
Comment Source:Jim, Appreciate the interest as always. I'm trying to relate the LTE modulation factor to something akin to a Reynolds number (Re) or a Richardson number (Ri), which makes it a single scalar that describes the breaking or folding of the waves (like a turbulence factor but not chaotic) and to the primary wavenumber. Right now the trend of the LTE value is closer to zero if the climate index is measured close to the equator (QBO is the lowest) and it tends to increase as the index moves away from the equator. The ordering is about like this: QBO < ENSO < (AMO ~ IOD) < PDO < ( NAO ~ AO ~ SAM ~ PNA) The wavenumber of QBO approaches zero because the standing wave encircles the equator and cycles in unison. Correspondingly the wavenumber values may be required to increase away from the equator -- which is forced to be smaller closer to the poles -- but it also may be due to the specific waveguide bounding box of the index. For example, the equatorial Pacific is widest and thus ENSO has the lowest primary wavenumber next to QBO. --- Added for entertainment. This is a typical YouTube search for "fluid motion in glycerine" https://youtu.be/Yy0-1nWVgls Notice how the fluid flow is complete reversible in the sense that all the dispersion observed "undisperses" on reversing direction. This is a consequence of the low Reynolds number limit -- via the highly viscous glycerine media -- of the Navier-Stokes equation.
What's interesting about the common tidal forcing of (AO, NAO, PNA, SAM) is that there is a distinct visible period in the time-series which is the lunar tropical month (27.321582 days) aliased against the annual signal.
1/(365.242/(27.321582)-13) = 2.72 years
For the QBO, the forcing and response are very close to each other (due to the low LTE factor) and the tidal forcing is the lunar draconic month (27.2122 days) aliased against the annual signal. This gives the measured QBO periodicity of:
1/(365.242/(27.2122)-13) = 2.37 years
There are many papers suggesting that there is a connection between QBO and polar behavior, but it is not always there. The wavenumber 0 symmetry of the QBO precludes any tropical (synodic) dependence so the cycle is draconic while the the other indices require a tropical dependence as they are geospatially specific. The two distinct cycles will go in and out of sync gradually with an 18.6 year cycle.
One such paper from earlier this year claiming the teleconnection: Observed and Simulated Teleconnections Between the Stratospheric Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere Winter Atmospheric Circulation
Comment Source:What's interesting about the common tidal forcing of (AO, NAO, PNA, SAM) is that there is a distinct visible period in the time-series which is the lunar *tropical* month (27.321582 days) aliased against the annual signal.  1/(365.242/(27.321582)-13) = 2.72 years For the QBO, the forcing and response are very close to each other (due to the low LTE factor) and the tidal forcing is the lunar *draconic* month (27.2122 days) aliased against the annual signal. This gives the measured QBO periodicity of: 1/(365.242/(27.2122)-13) = 2.37 years There are many papers suggesting that there is a connection between QBO and polar behavior, but it is not always there. The wavenumber 0 symmetry of the QBO precludes any tropical (synodic) dependence so the cycle is draconic while the the other indices require a tropical dependence as they are geospatially specific. The two distinct cycles will go in and out of sync gradually with an 18.6 year cycle. One such paper from earlier this year claiming the teleconnection: [Observed and Simulated Teleconnections Between the Stratospheric Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere Winter Atmospheric Circulation](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JD029368)
Interesting reading :)
Comment Source:Interesting reading :)
The bizarreness of the solution can perhaps be rationalized when considered in the context of solving equations derived from the full Navier-Stokes. If Navier-Stokes was straightforward, the solution would likely be a familiar formulation, but since N-S is challenging you might imagine that the solution would be odd-looking.
Comment Source:The bizarreness of the solution can perhaps be rationalized when considered in the context of solving equations derived from the full Navier-Stokes. If Navier-Stokes was straightforward, the solution would likely be a familiar formulation, but since N-S is challenging you might imagine that the solution would be odd-looking.
Jan, Saw your comment attached to the Antarctic Ice sheet melting post over at RC and responded, waiting for it to come out of moderation.
I summarized the findings of common-mode forcing here: https://geoenergymath.com/2019/08/12/ao-pna-and-sam-models/
The RC post is saying that variability in ice sheet melting is linked to ENSO. SAM is located right off Antarctica, and has that connection to ENSO via the common-mode tidal forcing.
Comment Source:Jan, Saw your [comment attached to the Antarctic Ice sheet melting post over at RC](http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/08/the-antarctic-ice-sheet-is-melting-and-yeah-its-probably-our-fault) and responded, waiting for it to come out of moderation.  I summarized the findings of common-mode forcing here: https://geoenergymath.com/2019/08/12/ao-pna-and-sam-models/ The RC post is saying that variability in ice sheet melting is linked to ENSO. SAM is located right off Antarctica, and has that connection to ENSO via the common-mode tidal forcing.
Thanks, Paul!
Comment Source:Thanks, Paul!
There was a paper titled "Numerical Bifurcation Methods applied to Climate Models: Analysis beyond Simulation" which was open review
I asked a question based on an excerpt in the paper:
"All of the results of continuation methods described above were obtained under stationary forcing and for many in the field this seems disjoint from the real climate system, which is obviously forced by a non-stationary insolation component (on diurnal, seasonal and orbital time scales). "
Are tidal forcing factors considered on orbital time scales? According to Munk and Wunsch, tidal factors are a factor in overturning circulation. -- Munk, W. & Wunsch, C. Abyssal recipes II: energetics of tidal and wind mixing. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 45, 1977–2010 (1998).
Obviously I was trying to provoke the author into addressing what I think are the real drivers of the system, that is the tidal+seasonal forcing.
The author responded:
"Tidal factors are certainly important the maintain the mean state ocean circulation on long time scales, but they are usually not considered when looking at orbital variations, where changes in this mean state are considered. Effectively, they are represented at a high aggregate level by the vertical mixing coefficients in the ocean model component."
This is an inadequate response in that admitting that tidal forcing works on long scales with the knowledge that it also works on short time scales (i.e. ocean tides) misses the obvious intermediate level that ENSO and the other oceanic dipoles work on. From the second sentence, I am assuming any contributions of tides are essentially introduced only by parameterizing the mean-value fluid coefficients so the forcing will never pass through and show up in the output of the model as a response.
ps. Cant comment further on the article as the review period is now closed.
Comment Source:There was a paper titled ["Numerical Bifurcation Methods applied to Climate Models: Analysis beyond Simulation"](https://www.nonlin-processes-geophys-discuss.net/npg-2019-29/#discussion) which was open review I asked a question based on an excerpt in the paper: > "*All of the results of continuation methods described above were obtained under stationary forcing and for many in the field this seems disjoint from the real climate system, which is obviously forced by a non-stationary insolation component (on diurnal, seasonal and orbital time scales).* " >Are tidal forcing factors considered on orbital time scales? According to Munk and Wunsch, tidal factors are a factor in overturning circulation. -- Munk, W. & Wunsch, C. Abyssal recipes II: energetics of tidal and wind mixing. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 45, 1977–2010 (1998). Obviously I was trying to provoke the author into addressing what I think are the real drivers of the system, that is the tidal+seasonal forcing. The author responded: > "Tidal factors are certainly important the maintain the mean state ocean circulation on long time scales, but they are usually not considered when looking at orbital variations, where changes in this mean state are considered. Effectively, they are represented at a high aggregate level by the vertical mixing coefficients in the ocean model component." This is an inadequate response in that admitting that tidal forcing works on long scales with the knowledge that it also works on short time scales (i.e. ocean tides) misses the obvious intermediate level that ENSO and the other oceanic dipoles work on. From the second sentence, I am assuming any contributions of tides are essentially introduced only by parameterizing the mean-value fluid coefficients so the forcing will never pass through and show up in the output of the model as a response. ps. Cant comment further on the article as the review period is now closed.
"Prominent precession‐band variance in ENSO intensity over the last 300,000 years"
"The simulated ENSO and AC amplitudes change in‐phase, and both have pronounced precession‐band variance (~21,000 years). The precession‐modulated slow (orbital time scales) ENSO evolution is dominated linearly by the change of the coupled ocean‐atmosphere instability, notably the Ekman upwelling feedback and thermocline feedback." in Geophysical Research Letters
How can they say this about orbital factors that impact ENSO via the thermocline and upwelling over thousands of years and yet neglect the orbital factors that clearly occur over the monthly cycle?
Part of the reason is that the orbital factors are all solar related, and so they preclude lunar forcing
"First, we want to explore the ENSO response to the orbital forcing that includes full cycles of eccentricity (~100 ka), obliquity (~41 ka) and precession (~21 ka) (Berger and Loutre, 1991), with more extreme precessional forcing effects (modulated by a larger eccentricity compared to the last 21 ka). "
And this is how they can rationalize ignoring the short term scale
It looks as if they simplify that substantially differs from the shallow-water wave equation (i.e. Laplace's tidal equation) ansatz that I apply. They lose track of the non-linear terms and leave it in a form that essentially models a linearly sloshing thermocline see-saw. Moreover, they then conclude that it's too complex due to stratification. Yet if it's too complicated, how can they understand it enough to make extrapolations over a much longer time-scale?
Comment Source:["Prominent precession‐band variance in ENSO intensity over the last 300,000 years"](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL083410) > "The simulated ENSO and AC amplitudes change in‐phase, and both have pronounced precession‐band variance (~21,000 years). The precession‐modulated slow (orbital time scales) ENSO evolution is dominated linearly by the change of the coupled ocean‐atmosphere instability, notably the Ekman upwelling feedback and thermocline feedback." in **Geophysical Research Letters** How can they say this about orbital factors that impact ENSO via the thermocline and upwelling over thousands of years and yet neglect the orbital factors that clearly occur over the monthly cycle? Part of the reason is that the orbital factors are all solar related, and so they preclude lunar forcing > "First, we want to explore the ENSO response to the orbital forcing that includes full cycles of eccentricity (~100 ka), obliquity (~41 ka) and precession (~21 ka) (Berger and Loutre, 1991), with more extreme precessional forcing effects (modulated by a larger eccentricity compared to the last 21 ka). " And this is how they can rationalize ignoring the short term scale  It looks as if they simplify that substantially differs from the shallow-water wave equation (i.e. Laplace's tidal equation) ansatz that I apply. They lose track of the non-linear terms and leave it in a form that essentially models a linearly sloshing thermocline see-saw. Moreover, they then conclude that it's too complex due to stratification. Yet if it's too complicated, how can they understand it enough to make extrapolations over a much longer time-scale?
Terry Tao proposes ideas for solving Navier-Stokes. May have to set up a new discussion thread for this -- will edit this if it goes anywhere. https://www.quantamagazine.org/terence-tao-proposes-fluid-new-path-in-navier-stokes-problem-20140224/
"... the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid flow, which physicists use to model ocean currents, weather patterns and other phenomena. "
His latest Navier-Stokes post was last week: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/15/quantitative-bounds-for-critically-bounded-solutions-to-the-navier-stokes-equations/
Comment Source:Terry Tao proposes ideas for solving Navier-Stokes. May have to set up a new discussion thread for this -- will edit this if it goes anywhere. https://www.quantamagazine.org/terence-tao-proposes-fluid-new-path-in-navier-stokes-problem-20140224/ > "... the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid flow, which physicists use to model ocean currents, weather patterns and other phenomena. " His latest Navier-Stokes post was last week: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/15/quantitative-bounds-for-critically-bounded-solutions-to-the-navier-stokes-equations/
New paper at Journal of Climate : https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0681.1, Xian Wu, Yuko M. Okumura, and Pedro N. DiNezio, "What Controls the Duration of El Niño and La Niña Events?", 2019.
Comment Source:New paper at _Journal_ _of_ _Climate_ : https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0681.1, Xian Wu, Yuko M. Okumura, and Pedro N. DiNezio, "What Controls the Duration of El Niño and La Niña Events?", 2019.
September 2019 edited April 2020
The inability of forecasters to track hurricanes accurately is fundamentally related to the inability to model tropical behavior such as ENSO
https://theusposts.com/hurricane-tracker-what-causes-deadly-hurricanes-what-is-el-nino/
Professor Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science told Express.co.uk: “The primary reason for NOAA’s increase in their forecast was due to the weakening of El Niño.
“El Niño is warmer than normal water in the central and eastern tropical Pacific.
“Typically, when you have El Niño conditions, it increases vertical wind shear in the Caribbean into the tropical Atlantic, tearing apart hurricanes.
“With El Niño going away, they anticipated less vertical wind shear and consequently more conducive conditions for hurricanes.”
Consider the simplicity and the symmetry of the forcing model I am using for ENSO. The essential tidal forcing is the sidereal (tropical) and synodic lunar cycles. The combination of this pair of fortnightly cycles leads to a semi-annual symmetry in the time-series. Even though the analysis started with a comprehensive forcing model, just a couple of the main factors provide the basic pattern.
From the amplitude spectrum, one can see how these are the strongest tidal factors, labelled Mf (fortnightly cycle doubled from the monthly sidereal) and Msf (from the synodic), with the Mf+Ssa (solar semi-annual) peak generating the semi-annual beat pattern. (The inset is an earlier model that gave a hint of the beat pattern)
The tricky fluid dynamics aspect is in determining the LTE modulation, both for the major ENSO standing wave and the higher harmonics. The major cycle represents the primary dipole, while the higher frequency noise is actually constructive in that it provides harmonics that shape the peaks in the time series.
Considering the simplicity and low dimensionality of the model, the good fit suggests that it's a very plausible mechanism.
The LTE modulation derives from an assumed wiggle in the equatorial latitude. Imagine that the cyclic forcing impacts the location of the equatorial latitude, pushing it north & south in a deterministic pattern. This is the ansatz that leads to the solution to Laplace's Tidal Equations, and thus providing a means to create a non-linear modulation of the tidal forcing.
Comment Source:The inability of forecasters to track hurricanes accurately is fundamentally related to the inability to model tropical behavior such as ENSO https://theusposts.com/hurricane-tracker-what-causes-deadly-hurricanes-what-is-el-nino/ > Professor Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science told Express.co.uk: “The primary reason for NOAA’s increase in their forecast was due to the weakening of El Niño. > “El Niño is warmer than normal water in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. > “Typically, when you have El Niño conditions, it increases vertical wind shear in the Caribbean into the tropical Atlantic, tearing apart hurricanes. > “With El Niño going away, they anticipated less vertical wind shear and consequently more conducive conditions for hurricanes.” --- Consider the simplicity and the symmetry of the forcing model I am using for ENSO. The essential tidal forcing is the sidereal (tropical) and synodic lunar cycles. The combination of this pair of fortnightly cycles leads to a semi-annual symmetry in the time-series. Even though the analysis started with a comprehensive forcing model, just a couple of the main factors provide the basic pattern.  From the amplitude spectrum, one can see how these are the strongest tidal factors, labelled Mf (fortnightly cycle doubled from the monthly sidereal) and Msf (from the synodic), with the Mf+Ssa (solar semi-annual) peak generating the semi-annual beat pattern. (The inset is an earlier model that gave a hint of the beat pattern)  The tricky fluid dynamics aspect is in determining the LTE modulation, both for the major ENSO standing wave and the higher harmonics. The major cycle represents the primary dipole, while the higher frequency noise is actually constructive in that it provides harmonics that shape the peaks in the time series.  Considering the simplicity and low dimensionality of the model, the good fit suggests that it's a very plausible mechanism.  --- The LTE modulation derives from an assumed wiggle in the equatorial latitude. Imagine that the cyclic forcing impacts the location of the equatorial latitude, pushing it north & south in a deterministic pattern. This is the ansatz that leads to the solution to Laplace's Tidal Equations, and thus providing a means to create a non-linear modulation of the tidal forcing.    
One of the tricky parts of dealing with an uncommon mathematical formulation is in finding appropriate analysis techniques. The Laplace's Tidal Equation solution is essentially a "sine of sine" formulation, which is rare to come across. Yet it is quite important in the realm of Mach-Zehnder modulation (MZM), which is applied in interferometry-based measurement applications and in fiber optic communication devices.
This is from a book called Fiber Optics: Physics and Technology by Mitschke, where the sine of sine modulation is defined and often applied as a means to finely control the phase of a signal.
In a specific optical application, MZM can be used to encrypt comms such that enough phase shifts are applied as to make the signal nearly impossible to decode. This paper describes a method operating in the Fresnel domain where \( 2 \pi\) phase shifts are the norm.
Abstract: A method for optical image hiding and for optical image encryption and hiding in the Fresnel domain via completely optical means is proposed, which encodes original object image into the encrypted image and then embeds it into host image in our modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer architecture. The modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer not only provides phase shifts to record complex amplitude of final encrypted object image on CCD plane but also introduces host image into reference path of the interferometer to hide it. The final encrypted object image is registered as interference patterns, which resemble a Fresnel diffraction pattern of the host image, and thus the secure information is imperceptible to unauthorized receivers. The method can simultaneously realize image encryption and image hiding at a high speed in pure optical system. The validity of the method and its robustness against some common attacks are investigated by numerical simulations and experiments.
So this is essentially what we are up against when trying to invert an LTE modulation that follows a \( sin(A sin(t)) \) behavior. If the value of \(A\) is small, there's no issue with doing a Taylor's series expansion, but if \(A\) gets too large, we have no way of extracting the number of \( 2 \pi\) phase shifts that are occurring, particularly if the internal \( sin(t) \) is an unknown Fourier series representation of the embedded signal. That's part of the reason it works effectively as an encryption approach, as only the sender and receiver know the key = number of phase shifts involved.
The best I have been able to do so far with an \(arcsin()\) inversion is to start with a candidate solution for LTE (e.g. a tropical lunar sinewave mixed with an annual impulse) and then estimate the \( 2 \pi\) phase shifts required to match the ENSO signal. This works fairly effectively but suffers from a biased coupling so as to render any correlation coefficient meaningless. The approach is essentially working from both ends of the following figure towards the middle.
The other aspect of MZM that I need to ponder is whether there is some commonality in the topological physics between the LTE formulation for constrained fluid dynamics and the wave modulation created via a MZ device. They are both waves, but there is likely something more fundamental involving how the "modulation of a modulation" arises.
I have been toying with the idea that it may have something to do with the physics of topological insulators from the cite below. This group is already trying to understand equatorial indices such as ENSO by analogizing from the fractional quantum Hall effect world, so perhaps there is a happy medium.
Topological Origin of Equatorial Waves : Pierre Delplace, J. B. Marston, Antoine Venaille
"The first Chern number is an integer that quantifies the number of phase singularities in a bundle of eigenmodes parameterized on a closed manifold. These singularities are somewhat analogous to amphidromic points (±2π phase vortices of tidal modes), but they occur in parameter space rather than in physical space"
Famous last words "defined only up to a phase"
Comment Source:One of the tricky parts of dealing with an uncommon mathematical formulation is in finding appropriate analysis techniques. The Laplace's Tidal Equation solution is essentially a "sine of sine" formulation, which is rare to come across. Yet it is quite important in the realm of [Mach-Zehnder modulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-optic_modulator) (MZM), which is applied in interferometry-based measurement applications and in fiber optic communication devices. This is from a book called Fiber Optics: Physics and Technology by Mitschke, where the sine of sine modulation is defined and often applied as a means to finely control the phase of a signal.  In a specific optical application, MZM can be used to encrypt comms such that enough phase shifts are applied as to make the signal nearly impossible to decode. This paper describes a method operating in the Fresnel domain where \\( 2 \pi\\) phase shifts are the norm. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24663801 > Abstract: A method for optical image hiding and for optical image encryption and hiding in the Fresnel domain via completely optical means is proposed, which encodes original object image into the encrypted image and then embeds it into host image in our modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer architecture. The modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer not only provides phase shifts to record complex amplitude of final encrypted object image on CCD plane but also introduces host image into reference path of the interferometer to hide it. The final encrypted object image is registered as interference patterns, which resemble a Fresnel diffraction pattern of the host image, and thus the secure information is imperceptible to unauthorized receivers. The method can simultaneously realize image encryption and image hiding at a high speed in pure optical system. The validity of the method and its robustness against some common attacks are investigated by numerical simulations and experiments. So this is essentially what we are up against when trying to invert an LTE modulation that follows a \\( sin(A sin(t)) \\) behavior. If the value of \\(A\\) is small, there's no issue with doing a Taylor's series expansion, but if \\(A\\) gets too large, we have no way of extracting the number of \\( 2 \pi\\) phase shifts that are occurring, particularly if the internal \\( sin(t) \\) is an unknown Fourier series representation of the embedded signal. That's part of the reason it works effectively as an encryption approach, as only the sender and receiver know the key = number of phase shifts involved. The best I have been able to do so far with an \\(arcsin()\\) inversion is to start with a candidate solution for LTE (e.g. a tropical lunar sinewave mixed with an annual impulse) and then estimate the \\( 2 \pi\\) phase shifts required to match the ENSO signal. This works fairly effectively but suffers from a biased coupling so as to render any correlation coefficient meaningless. The approach is essentially working from both ends of the following figure towards the middle.  The other aspect of MZM that I need to ponder is whether there is some commonality in the topological physics between the LTE formulation for constrained fluid dynamics and the wave modulation created via a MZ device. They are both waves, but there is likely something more fundamental involving how the "modulation of a modulation" arises. I have been toying with the idea that it may have something to do with the physics of topological insulators from the cite below. This group is already trying to understand equatorial indices such as ENSO by analogizing from the fractional quantum Hall effect world, so perhaps there is a happy medium. [Topological Origin of Equatorial Waves : Pierre Delplace, J. B. Marston, Antoine Venaille](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07583.pdf) > "The first Chern number is an integer that quantifies the number of phase singularities in a bundle of eigenmodes parameterized on a closed manifold. These singularities are somewhat analogous to amphidromic points (±2π phase vortices of tidal modes), but they occur in parameter space rather than in physical space" Famous last words *"defined only up to a phase"*
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This was apparently about a year ago
I am sure this forum is receiving the same interest several years in
Comment Source:#\#ClimateStrike This was apparently about a year ago  I am sure this forum is receiving the same interest several years in
Why I didn't do this bit of signal processing earlier, I don't know.
Take the Fourier spectrum of the ENSO time-series and shift and reverse the order of frequencies between 0.5 to 1/year and by 0.5/year (i.e. fold it back) to quantify the underlying forcing symmetry.
The correlation coefficient is ~0.6 which is impossible to attain with a stochastic auto-regressive spectrum.
Compare this to the model tidal forcing where the spectrum is not folded as above but the symmetry centered at 0.5 /year (and 1.5 /year) is clearly apparent.
The folded cross-correlation of this ideal model forcing is > 0.9, so likely the LTE modulation is responsible for the multiple splitting of the peaks in the ENSO forcing response, thus degrading the symmetry to some degree.
Analysts may overlook this kind of approach because they will simply take the spectrum, not see any annual spectral peak, and so just assume that an annual signal doesn't exist. Yet, taking an annual impulse and convolving that with any kind of sinusoidal waveform with a mean of zero will create only satellite peaks in the response, with the annual spectral peak completely missing. Then with any modulation, such as via the LTE tidal response, the spectral response gets reshaped -- much like the Mach-Zehnder modulation creates a "comb" response (from the post from last week).
The insight is that LTE and MZM is essentially the same analysis. After the MZ modulation is applied to the input signal, it combs out as in the rightmost column below. The comb is essentially a large number of precisely spaced spectral lines that are comprised of harmonics of the original signal.
"Characterization of dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator based optical frequency comb generator in two regimes"
The reason that the ENSO is difficult to decode is that we are only guessing what the LTE modulation is. In contrast, with Mach-Zehnder, that is part of the device design and one calibrates the modulation beforehand. As I said earlier, this is why MZM is hard to decode when used for crypto applications. With a strong modulation, the time domain trace is shown below, creating erratic harmonics of the fundamental frequency.
Consider that there may be a number of varying input signals and if the comb is in 2D, the output will obviously become quite scrambled, making it impossible to decode without knowing the MTM key.
But here is the next mathematical idea. The MZM modulation is typically expanded as a Taylor's series with the coefficients of the harmonics given by a Bessel function, see this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-optic_modulator#Phase_modulation
So with enough data points and enough coefficients in this so-called Jacobi-Anger expansion, we should be able to do a multiple linear regression to optimize for a best fit of the amplitude (z below) and phase (weighting of sin vs cos below) of the modulation (or more than a single modulation if that works) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi–Anger_expansion
The reason that this may be possible without iteration and just by applying a regression algorithm is that the input frequencies (inner terms above) will be restricted to the primary tidal periods, each one of these will have an amplitude and phase. Since we will have ~1700 data points over 140 years worth of monthly ENSO data, there will be enough spectral resolution between 0 an 0.5 /year frequency to do a decent regression with a couple dozen parameters -- two modulation and perhaps 10 tidal cycles (amplitude + phase). The tricky part is the Bessel function on z which is non-linear, so perhaps these will need to be expanded and another regression applied.
Comment Source:Why I didn't do this bit of signal processing earlier, I don't know. Take the Fourier spectrum of the ENSO time-series and shift and reverse the order of frequencies between 0.5 to 1/year and by 0.5/year (i.e. fold it back) to quantify the underlying forcing symmetry.  The correlation coefficient is ~0.6 which is impossible to attain with a stochastic auto-regressive spectrum. Compare this to the model tidal forcing where the spectrum is not folded as above but the symmetry centered at 0.5 /year (and 1.5 /year) is clearly apparent.  The folded cross-correlation of this ideal model forcing is > 0.9, so likely the LTE modulation is responsible for the multiple splitting of the peaks in the ENSO forcing response, thus degrading the symmetry to some degree. Analysts may overlook this kind of approach because they will simply take the spectrum, not see any annual spectral peak, and so just assume that an annual signal doesn't exist. Yet, taking an annual impulse and **convolving** that with any kind of sinusoidal waveform with a mean of zero will create **only** satellite peaks in the response, with the annual spectral peak completely missing. Then with any modulation, such as via the LTE tidal response, the spectral response gets reshaped -- much like the Mach-Zehnder modulation creates a "comb" response (from the post from last week). The insight is that LTE and MZM is essentially the same analysis. After the MZ modulation is applied to the input signal, it combs out as in the rightmost column below. The comb is essentially a large number of precisely spaced spectral lines that are comprised of harmonics of the original signal. ["Characterization of dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator based optical frequency comb generator in two regimes" ](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Characterization-of-dual-electrode-Mach-Zehnder-in-Fontaine-Scott/640e962d202e714aa225887ad33fb45d7f6d77a4)  The reason that the ENSO is difficult to decode is that we are only guessing what the LTE modulation is. In contrast, with Mach-Zehnder, that is part of the device design and one calibrates the modulation beforehand. As I said earlier, this is why MZM is hard to decode when used for crypto applications. With a strong modulation, the time domain trace is shown below, creating erratic harmonics of the fundamental frequency.  Consider that there may be a number of varying input signals and if the comb is in 2D, the output will obviously become quite scrambled, making it impossible to decode without knowing the MTM key. But here is the next mathematical idea. The MZM modulation is typically expanded as a Taylor's series with the coefficients of the harmonics given by a Bessel function, see this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-optic_modulator#Phase_modulation <img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a7ff9546c46824262b3d20397e9c50112d2b5a3b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:72.43ex; height:7.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Ae^{i\omega t+i\beta \sin(\Omega t)}=Ae^{i\omega t}\left(J_{0}(\beta )+\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }J_{k}(\beta )e^{ik\Omega t}+\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{k}J_{k}(\beta )e^{-ik\Omega t}\right),}"> So with enough data points and enough coefficients in this so-called Jacobi-Anger expansion, we should be able to do a multiple linear regression to optimize for a best fit of the amplitude (z below) and phase (weighting of sin vs cos below) of the modulation (or more than a single modulation if that works) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%E2%80%93Anger_expansion <img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/479f84bed8d8c7faf30d65a780f65362e242bf92" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -13.505ex; width:51.159ex; height:28.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\cos(z\cos \theta )&\equiv J_{0}(z)+2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}J_{2n}(z)\cos(2n\theta ),\\\sin(z\cos \theta )&\equiv -2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}J_{2n-1}(z)\cos \left[\left(2n-1\right)\theta \right],\\\cos(z\sin \theta )&\equiv J_{0}(z)+2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }J_{2n}(z)\cos(2n\theta ),\\\sin(z\sin \theta )&\equiv 2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }J_{2n-1}(z)\sin \left[\left(2n-1\right)\theta \right].\end{aligned}}}"> The reason that this may be possible without iteration and just by applying a regression algorithm is that the input frequencies (inner terms above) will be restricted to the primary tidal periods, each one of these will have an amplitude and phase. Since we will have ~1700 data points over 140 years worth of monthly ENSO data, there will be enough spectral resolution between 0 an 0.5 /year frequency to do a decent regression with a couple dozen parameters -- two modulation and perhaps 10 tidal cycles (amplitude + phase). The tricky part is the Bessel function on z which is non-linear, so perhaps these will need to be expanded and another regression applied.
More on deep learning for multi-year ENSO forecasts: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1559-7
Comment Source:More on deep learning for multi-year ENSO forecasts: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1559-7
Saw that deep-learning paper, thanks. As far as I can tell, they haven't been able to reverse engineer any of the connections in their model yet. So it may work but they don't understand why. If you have something I missed that would be interesting to hear about.
It points out how connections are developed. For example, in the finding I made in the previous comment, the neural net would need to have picked out correlations in frequency space by swapping out various frequencies and doing comparisons. So, in this case, the net would need to have been designed to accommodate that.
Comment Source:Saw that deep-learning paper, thanks. As far as I can tell, they haven't been able to reverse engineer any of the connections in their model yet. So it may work but they don't understand why. If you have something I missed that would be interesting to hear about. It points out how connections are developed. For example, in the finding I made <a href="#Comment_336">in the previous comment</a>, the neural net would need to have picked out correlations in frequency space by swapping out various frequencies and doing comparisons. So, in this case, the net would need to have been designed to accommodate that.
A few comments up I said:
"The folded cross-correlation of this ideal model forcing is > 0.9, so likely the LTE modulation is responsible for the multiple splitting of the peaks in the ENSO forcing response, thus degrading the symmetry to some degree."
I initially thought the Laplace's Tidal Equation (LTE) modulation may remove the spectral symmetry around the 0.5/year position, but this is definitely not the case. The symmetry is perfectly preserved independent of the amount of modulation, with more satellite peaks added the greater the modulation. This is easy to understand as only harmonics of the no-LTE fundamental forcing frequency are generated and these will preserve the +/- satellite symmetry, no matter how strong the modulation.
This brings up an interesting possibility in terms of classical tidal analysis. Early on it was realized that there were quite a few tidal constituents to deal with:
"Darwin's harmonic developments of the tide-generating forces were later improved when A T Doodson, applying the lunar theory of E W Brown, developed the tide-generating potential (TGP) in harmonic form, distinguishing 388 tidal frequencies. Doodson's work was carried out and published in 1921."
Even though there are even more than that now, only a few are needed for short-term forecasts. Yet, the reason that so many exist is because these are all generated by combinations of all the possible products of the constituent factors. The interesting finding is that the LTE modulation will also generate all the harmonic combinations, which may explain how the harmonics come about. The LTE modulation is likely very weak for conventional tides, but if it is there at all, it will generate all the tidal harmonics tabulated.
For 4 primary tidal constituents (solar, synodic, draconic, anomalistic) and a 4 harmonic depth on each (i.e. monthly, fortnightly, 9 day, 6.5 day for lunar, and 1 year, 1/2 year, 1/3 year, etc for solar) this will generate ~4^4 = 256 additional harmonics.
Comment Source:A few comments up [I said](#Comment_21195): > "The folded cross-correlation of this ideal model forcing is > 0.9, so likely the LTE modulation is responsible for the multiple splitting of the peaks in the ENSO forcing response, thus degrading the symmetry to some degree." I initially thought the Laplace's Tidal Equation (LTE) modulation may remove the spectral symmetry around the 0.5/year position, but this is definitely not the case. The symmetry is perfectly preserved independent of the amount of modulation, with more satellite peaks added the greater the modulation. This is easy to understand as only harmonics of the no-LTE fundamental forcing frequency are generated and these will preserve the +/- satellite symmetry, no matter how strong the modulation. This brings up an interesting possibility in terms of classical tidal analysis. Early on it was realized that there were quite a few tidal constituents to deal with: > "Darwin's harmonic developments of the tide-generating forces were later improved when A T Doodson, applying the lunar theory of E W Brown, developed the tide-generating potential (TGP) in harmonic form, distinguishing **388** tidal frequencies. Doodson's work was carried out and published in 1921." Even though there are even more than that now, only a few are needed for short-term forecasts. Yet, the reason that so many exist is because these are all generated by combinations of all the possible products of the constituent factors. The interesting finding is that the LTE modulation will also generate all the harmonic combinations, which may explain how the harmonics come about. The LTE modulation is likely very weak for conventional tides, but if it is there at all, it will generate all the tidal harmonics tabulated. For 4 primary tidal constituents (solar, synodic, draconic, anomalistic) and a 4 harmonic depth on each (i.e. monthly, fortnightly, 9 day, 6.5 day for lunar, and 1 year, 1/2 year, 1/3 year, etc for solar) this will generate ~4^4 = 256 additional harmonics.
Tibetan Singing Bowl
The orbiting perturbation causes wild fluctuations
https://www.iop.org/news/11/july/page_51352.html
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0951-7715/24/8/R01
Comment Source:Tibetan Singing Bowl https://youtu.be/oob8zENYt0g The orbiting perturbation causes wild fluctuations https://www.iop.org/news/11/july/page_51352.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0951-7715/24/8/R01 
Comment Source:very interesting
This book on the Physics of Waves by H. Georgi (online PDF) provides some insight.
Incompressibility is an aspect of the ansatz I am using in generating the solution to Laplace's Tidal Equations (LTE) along the equator. If you think of the behavior as a liquid string that can't compress but can wiggle along its equatorial track, then this provides the closure necessary for the solution.
The nature of a compressible liquid is that a displacement in one direction must be compensated by a displacement in another direction. This could be just a speed up in flow a la Bernoulli's principle.
So the ansatz that I used in the following derivation is to apply a bending wiggle to the latitudinal displacement of the equatorial wave. This conserves matter by slightly displacing the position of the axis, pulled by gravitational/tidal forces -- at the expense of what would have to be a compensating change in the speed of the fluid.
Without this ansatz in place, the latitudinal and longitudinal behaviors of LTE are uncoupled, yet we know they are physically coupled, otherwise the topological feature of the ENSO equatorial wave would not exist.
Comment Source:This book on the Physics of Waves by H. Georgi *([online PDF](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hgeorgi/onenew.pdf))* provides some insight.  Incompressibility is an aspect of the ansatz I am using in generating the solution to Laplace's Tidal Equations (LTE) along the equator. If you think of the behavior as a liquid string that can't compress but can wiggle along its equatorial track, then this provides the closure necessary for the solution.   The nature of a compressible liquid is that a displacement in one direction must be compensated by a displacement in another direction. This could be just a speed up in flow a la Bernoulli's principle. https://youtu.be/UJ3-Zm1wbIQ So the ansatz that I used in the following derivation is to apply a bending wiggle to the latitudinal displacement of the equatorial wave. This conserves matter by slightly displacing the position of the axis, pulled by gravitational/tidal forces -- at the expense of what would have to be a compensating change in the speed of the fluid.  Without this ansatz in place, the latitudinal and longitudinal behaviors of LTE are uncoupled, yet we know they are physically coupled, otherwise the topological feature of the ENSO equatorial wave would not exist.
A recent paper that claims that tides have a greater influence than surface wind on the forcing dynamics of ENSO.
Lin, J. & Qian, T. Switch Between El Nino and La Nina is Caused by Subsurface Ocean Waves Likely Driven by Lunar Tidal Forcing. Sci Rep 9, 1–10 (2019). "Here, we demonstrate that the switch between El Nino and La Nina is caused by a subsurface ocean wave propagating from western Pacifc to central and eastern Pacifc and then triggering development of SST anomaly. This is based on analysis of all ENSO events in the past 136 years using multiple long-term observational datasets. The wave’s slow phase speed and decoupling from atmosphere indicate that it is a forced wave. Further analysis of Earth’s angular momentum budget and NASA’s Apollo Landing Mirror Experiment suggests that the subsurface wave is likely driven by lunar tidal gravitational force."
This is essentially the same thing I have been suggesting -- it just doesn't make sense that a surface wind can drive the sub-surface water sloshing at the thermocline. Take a look at this post from a few years ago from NOAA. They show the following chart of deeper water temperature anomaly (300 feet deep!) while saying with a straight face that surface wind is causing it.
Slow slosh of warm water across Pacific hints El Niño is brewing "As the warm surface water is pushed westward by the prevailing winds, cool water from deeper in the ocean rises to the surface near South America. This temperature gradient—warm waters around Indonesia and cooler waters off South America—lasts only as long as the easterly winds are blowing."
Give credit to Lin & Qian for pointing out how implausible it is to suggest that wind alone can push water around to that extent. Obviously, tidal forces are the one agent that can influence the reduce gravity imbalance on the deeper thermocline (as hypothesized long ago by the legendary physical oceanographers Munk and Wunsch). Yet no real response from anyone else on a paper that directly contradicts the research consensus.
[edit] Just to indicate how conflicting the research is on the topic of atmosphere versus ocean causality, there's this paper
"The ability to anticipate changes to the ocean or atmosphere based on information from the other system provides society with the opportunity to prepare for future impacts, such as to agriculture and fisheries," said Wills. "This is a very important paper in the history of predictability research," said Shukla, "It will surely inspire further research by the predictability research community. In particular, this paper identifies geographical regions on the globe over which there exists potential predictability which can be harvested for improving operational predictions."
Comment Source:A recent paper that claims that tides have a greater influence than surface wind on the forcing dynamics of ENSO. > Lin, J. & Qian, T. [Switch Between El Nino and La Nina is Caused by Subsurface Ocean Waves Likely Driven by Lunar Tidal Forcing](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49678-w.pdf). Sci Rep 9, 1–10 (2019). > "Here, we demonstrate that the switch between El Nino and La Nina is caused by a subsurface ocean wave propagating from western Pacifc to central and eastern Pacifc and then triggering development of SST anomaly. This is based on analysis of all ENSO events in the past 136 years using multiple long-term observational datasets. The wave’s slow phase speed and decoupling from atmosphere indicate that it is a forced wave. Further analysis of Earth’s angular momentum budget and NASA’s Apollo Landing Mirror Experiment suggests that the subsurface wave is likely driven by lunar tidal gravitational force." This is essentially the same thing I have been suggesting -- it just doesn't make sense that a surface wind can drive the sub-surface water sloshing at the thermocline. Take a look at this post from a few years ago from NOAA. They show the following chart of deeper water temperature anomaly (300 feet deep!) while saying with a straight face that surface wind is causing it. > [Slow slosh of warm water across Pacific hints El Niño is brewing](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/slow-slosh-warm-water-across-pacific-hints-el-ni%C3%B1o-brewing) > "As the warm surface water is pushed westward by the prevailing winds, cool water from deeper in the ocean rises to the surface near South America. This temperature gradient—warm waters around Indonesia and cooler waters off South America—lasts only as long as the easterly winds are blowing." >  Give credit to Lin & Qian for pointing out how implausible it is to suggest that wind alone can push water around to that extent. Obviously, tidal forces are the one agent that can influence the reduce gravity imbalance on the deeper thermocline (as hypothesized long ago by the legendary physical oceanographers [Munk and Wunsch](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063798000703)). Yet no real response from anyone else on a paper that directly contradicts the research consensus. --- [edit] Just to indicate how conflicting the research is on the topic of atmosphere versus ocean causality, there's [this paper](https://phys.org/news/2019-10-method-global-picture-mutual-atmosphere.html) >"The ability to anticipate changes to the ocean or atmosphere based on information from the other system provides society with the opportunity to prepare for future impacts, such as to agriculture and fisheries," said Wills. >"This is a very important paper in the history of predictability research," said Shukla, "It will surely inspire further research by the predictability research community. In particular, this paper identifies geographical regions on the globe over which there exists potential predictability which can be harvested for improving operational predictions."
One way to prevent overfitting of a model is to use parameters that are fixed by an independent measurement. In the case of forcing for ENSO, and according to the LTE model, this is all ultimately related to angular momentum changes acting on the fluid. The angular momentum changes are reflected in measurements of the dLOD of the earth's length of day anomaly. The same lunisolar gravitational force that slows and speeds up the earth's rotation rate also impacts the sloshing of the ocean.
This is a model of ENSO with the top panel fitted according to the dLOD in the scans below
To extrapolate the LOD data before 1962 (which is when the high-resolution measurements started), the tidal pattern was decoded as a Fourier series.
This allowed the LOD data to be extended to the years before 1962.
Comment Source:One way to prevent overfitting of a model is to use parameters that are fixed by an independent measurement. In the case of forcing for ENSO, and according to the LTE model, this is all ultimately related to angular momentum changes acting on the fluid. The angular momentum changes are reflected in measurements of the dLOD of the earth's length of day anomaly. The same lunisolar gravitational force that slows and speeds up the earth's rotation rate also impacts the sloshing of the ocean. This is a model of ENSO with the top panel fitted according to the dLOD in the scans below  To extrapolate the LOD data before 1962 (which is when the high-resolution measurements started), the tidal pattern was decoded as a Fourier series.  This allowed the LOD data to be extended to the years before 1962.
An experiment with visual math/symbology
I still think it will take a lot of effort to make the model prediction-ready. It occurred to me that the annual impulse is equivalent to a day's worth of tidal information, so the equivalent of a tidal forecast based on 100 days worth of tidal gauge info requires 100 years of ENSO data.
Sean Carroll's 30-second take on predictions:
Comment Source:An experiment with visual math/symbology  I still think it will take a lot of effort to make the model prediction-ready. It occurred to me that the annual impulse is equivalent to a day's worth of tidal information, so the equivalent of a tidal forecast based on 100 days worth of tidal gauge info requires 100 years of ENSO data. Sean Carroll's 30-second take on predictions: https://youtu.be/Jqu7McECcgk
Fresh meat: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JC015030
Haven't read it since I do not have a subscription.
"Ocean dynamics shapes the structure and timing of Atlantic Equatorial Modes" Marta Martín‐Rey Irene Polo Belén Rodríguez‐Fonseca Alban Lazar Teresa Losada
A recent study has brought to light the co‐existence of two distinct Atlantic Equatorial Modes during negative phases of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: the Atlantic Niño and Horse‐Shoe (HS) mode. Nevertheless, the associated air‐sea interactions for HS mode have not been explored so far and the prevailing dynamic view of the Atlantic Niño has been questioned. Here, using forced ocean model simulations, we find that for both modes, ocean dynamics is essential to explain the equatorial SST variations, while air‐sea fluxes control the off‐equatorial SST anomalies. Moreover, we demonstrate the key role played by ocean waves in shaping their distinct structure and timing. For the positive phase of both Atlantic Niño and HS, anomalous westerly winds trigger a set of equatorial downwelling Kelvin waves (KW) during spring‐summer. These dKWs deepen the thermocline, favouring the equatorial warming through vertical diffusion and horizontal advection. Remarkably, for the HS, an anomalous north‐equatorial wind stress curl excites an upwelling Rossby wave (RW), which propagates westward and is reflected at the western boundary becoming an equatorial upwelling KW. The uKW propagates to the east, activating the thermocline feedbacks responsible to cool the sea surface during summer months. This RW‐reflected mechanism acts as a negative feedback causing the early termination of the HS mode. Our results provide an improvement in the understanding of the TAV modes and emphasize the importance of ocean wave activity to modulate the equatorial SST variability. These findings could be very useful to improve the prediction of the Equatorial Modes.
Comment Source:Fresh meat: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JC015030 Haven't read it since I do not have a subscription. "Ocean dynamics shapes the structure and timing of Atlantic Equatorial Modes" Marta Martín‐Rey Irene Polo Belén Rodríguez‐Fonseca Alban Lazar Teresa Losada Abstract A recent study has brought to light the co‐existence of two distinct Atlantic Equatorial Modes during negative phases of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: the Atlantic Niño and Horse‐Shoe (HS) mode. Nevertheless, the associated air‐sea interactions for HS mode have not been explored so far and the prevailing dynamic view of the Atlantic Niño has been questioned. Here, using forced ocean model simulations, we find that for both modes, ocean dynamics is essential to explain the equatorial SST variations, while air‐sea fluxes control the off‐equatorial SST anomalies. Moreover, we demonstrate the key role played by ocean waves in shaping their distinct structure and timing. For the positive phase of both Atlantic Niño and HS, anomalous westerly winds trigger a set of equatorial downwelling Kelvin waves (KW) during spring‐summer. These dKWs deepen the thermocline, favouring the equatorial warming through vertical diffusion and horizontal advection. Remarkably, for the HS, an anomalous north‐equatorial wind stress curl excites an upwelling Rossby wave (RW), which propagates westward and is reflected at the western boundary becoming an equatorial upwelling KW. The uKW propagates to the east, activating the thermocline feedbacks responsible to cool the sea surface during summer months. This RW‐reflected mechanism acts as a negative feedback causing the early termination of the HS mode. Our results provide an improvement in the understanding of the TAV modes and emphasize the importance of ocean wave activity to modulate the equatorial SST variability. These findings could be very useful to improve the prediction of the Equatorial Modes.
Advancing the yard-stick on that paper
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta_Martin-Rey/publication/336306423_Ocean_dynamics_shapes_the_structure_and_timing_of_Atlantic_Equatorial_Modes/links/5d9b264ba6fdccfd0e7f4148/Ocean-dynamics-shapes-the-structure-and-timing-of-Atlantic-Equatorial-Modes.pdf
"ocean dynamics is essential to explain the equatorial SST variations, while air‐sea fluxes control the off‐equatorial SST anomalies. "
Here is a chart supporting an annual impulse driving AMO. An example of double-sideband carrier suppressed modulation. It's not quite as obvious as for ENSO or PNA, but the long-period sidebands are distinct.
The way to read the chart is to fold the frequency spectrum from 0 to 0.5/year onto the reversed spectrum from 1.0 down to 0.5 year. Across the range, the correlation coefficient is above 0.5 which is highly significant.
Comment Source:Advancing the yard-stick on that paper https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta_Martin-Rey/publication/336306423_Ocean_dynamics_shapes_the_structure_and_timing_of_Atlantic_Equatorial_Modes/links/5d9b264ba6fdccfd0e7f4148/Ocean-dynamics-shapes-the-structure-and-timing-of-Atlantic-Equatorial-Modes.pdf > "ocean dynamics is essential to explain the equatorial SST variations, while air‐sea fluxes control the off‐equatorial SST anomalies. " Here is a chart supporting an annual impulse driving AMO. An example of [double-sideband carrier suppressed modulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-sideband_suppressed-carrier_transmission). It's not quite as obvious as for ENSO or PNA, but the long-period sidebands are distinct.  The way to read the chart is to fold the frequency spectrum from 0 to 0.5/year onto the reversed spectrum from 1.0 down to 0.5 year. Across the range, the correlation coefficient is above 0.5 which is highly significant.
This is related to comments #344 & #345. Given that it will take many decades to validate any ENSO model via prediction, the only technique to use in the interim are various flavors of cross-validation using existing data. The following chart uses a test interval that is short (~18 years, the nodal repeat cycle) but constrains the fit by applying a stringent calibration to the angular momentum forcing as measured by length-of-day (LOD) changes -- see middle panel.
The correlation coefficient in the training interval and the calibration interval is demanding at 0.95. The calibration interval is fit to long-period tidal constituents so that this can be extended outside the training interval as an applied ENSO forcing -- note that LOD changes are only high precision back to 1962 so this must be extrapolated for the 82 prior years. The completely unknown factor is the LTE modulation (shown in the upper inset) which is kept constant across the entire interval.
The lower panel is an amplitude spectrum across the entire extrapolated model range, which maintains a resemblance to the spectrum of the ENSO data in spite of the short training interval applied. Recall that because of the LTE modulation, the position of the Fourier peaks become scrambled similar to what occurs with Mach-Zehnder modulation (MZM) described in comment #336.
This has been a challenging modeling problem partly because of structural stability in the non-linear aspects of the LTE solution. Here is a recent article titled "Escape from Model Land" which relates structural stability to the Hawkmoth effect and distinguishes it from the (what I consider inapplicable) Butterfly effect.
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/194875/1/1662970102.pdf
"It is sometimes thought that if a model is only slightly wrong, then its outputs will correspondingly be only slightly wrong. The Butterfly Effect revealed that in deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems, a “slightly wrong” initial condition can yield wildly wrong outputs. The Hawkmoth Effect implies that when the mathematical structure of the model is only “slightly wrong” then one loses topological conjugacy (with probability one), and even the best formulated probability forecasts will be wildly wrong. This result, due to Smale in the early 1960’s holds consequences not only for the aims of prediction but also for model development and calibration, and of course for the formation of initial condition ensembles. Naïvely, we might hope that by making incremental improvements to the “realism” of a model (more accurate representations, greater details of processes, finer spatial or temporal resolution, etc.) we would also see incremental improvement in the outputs (either qualitative realism or according to some quantitative performance metric). Regarding the realism of short term trajectories, this may well be true! It is not expected to be true in terms of probability forecasts. And it is not always true in terms of short term trajectories; we note that fields of research where models have become dramatically more complex are experiencing exactly this problem: the nonlinear compound effects of any given small tweak or addition to the model structure are so great that calibration becomes a very computationally-intensive task and the marginal performance benefits of additional subroutines or processes may be zero or even negative. In plainer terms, adding detail to the model can make it less accurate."
This is why it is so difficult to decrypt MZM-encoded optical transmissions. Not only is the modulation unknown to a hacker but that slight variations in the modulation can provide completely different results. That helps explains why one needs to spend lots of effort on cross-validating the LTE model for ENSO before it is even close to becoming a practical tool for predictions, so re-read comment #345 in that context.
Comment Source:This is related to comments #344 & #345. Given that it will take many decades to validate any ENSO model via prediction, the only technique to use in the interim are various flavors of cross-validation using existing data. The following chart uses a test interval that is short (~18 years, the nodal repeat cycle) but constrains the fit by applying a stringent calibration to the angular momentum forcing as measured by length-of-day (LOD) changes -- see middle panel.  The correlation coefficient in the training interval and the calibration interval is demanding at 0.95. The calibration interval is fit to long-period tidal constituents so that this can be extended outside the training interval as an applied ENSO forcing -- note that LOD changes are only high precision back to 1962 so this must be extrapolated for the 82 prior years. The completely unknown factor is the LTE modulation (shown in the upper inset) which is kept constant across the entire interval. The lower panel is an amplitude spectrum across the entire extrapolated model range, which maintains a resemblance to the spectrum of the ENSO data in spite of the short training interval applied. Recall that because of the LTE modulation, the position of the Fourier peaks become scrambled similar to what occurs with Mach-Zehnder modulation (MZM) described in comment #336. --- This has been a challenging modeling problem partly because of structural stability in the non-linear aspects of the LTE solution. Here is a recent article titled "Escape from Model Land" which relates structural stability to the Hawkmoth effect and distinguishes it from the (what I consider inapplicable) Butterfly effect. https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/194875/1/1662970102.pdf > "It is sometimes thought that if a model is only slightly wrong, then its outputs will correspondingly be only slightly wrong. The Butterfly Effect revealed that in deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems, a “slightly wrong” initial condition can yield wildly wrong outputs. The Hawkmoth Effect implies that when the mathematical structure of the model is only “slightly wrong” then one loses topological conjugacy (with probability one), and even the best formulated probability forecasts will be wildly wrong. This result, due to Smale in the early 1960’s holds consequences not only for the aims of prediction but also for model development and calibration, and of course for the formation of initial condition ensembles. Naïvely, we might hope that by making incremental improvements to the “realism” of a model (more accurate representations, greater details of processes, finer spatial or temporal resolution, etc.) we would also see incremental improvement in the outputs (either qualitative realism or according to some quantitative performance metric). Regarding the realism of short term trajectories, this may well be true! It is not expected to be true in terms of probability forecasts. And it is not always true in terms of short term trajectories; we note that fields of research where models have become dramatically more complex are experiencing exactly this problem: the nonlinear compound effects of any given small tweak or addition to the model structure are so great that calibration becomes a very computationally-intensive task and the marginal performance benefits of additional subroutines or processes may be zero or even negative. In plainer terms, adding detail to the model can make it less accurate." This is why it is so difficult to decrypt MZM-encoded optical transmissions. Not only is the modulation unknown to a hacker but that slight variations in the modulation can provide completely different results. That helps explains why one needs to spend lots of effort on cross-validating the LTE model for ENSO before it is even close to becoming a practical tool for predictions, so re-read comment #345 in that context.
Whether an unknown Laplace's Tidal Equation or Mach-Zehnder modulation can be decoded easily is still an open question but here is a trig trick that doesn't require an \(arcsin \) function. The puzzle is how to recover \( g(t) \) from \( \sin( k g(t) ) \), where both \( k \) and \( g(t) \) are unknown. The hint is that it is easier to recover \( g'(t) \) than \( g(t) \). I am certain it's in the literature somewhere on inverting MZ modulation but it will take a while to find.
This is a recovery of \( g'(t) \) for an LTE/MZ modulation of \( k=3 \) for three mixed frequency sine waves (periods 12, 25, 40)
This is a modulation of \( k=10 \)
Note that the only problem is that it can't decide whether the recovered signal is \( g'(t) \) or \( -g'(t) \) and switches between the two whenever a \( 2 \pi \) boundary is crossed.
This is a slight modulation of \( k=0.01 \), which essentially recovers the derivative of the original mix of sine waves without switching to the opposite sine since no \( 2 \pi \) boundary crossings occur.
I think the approach should work fine on an ideal case once an algorithm is applied to prevent jump discontinuities when piecing together the intervals (the zero crossing points are the trickiest to handle). Whether it will work on a non-ideal signal such as ENSO is another question.
This is actually an easy formulation to derive if anyone wants to give it a go.
Comment Source:Whether an unknown Laplace's Tidal Equation or Mach-Zehnder modulation can be decoded easily is still an open question but here is a trig trick that doesn't require an \\(arcsin \\) function. The puzzle is how to recover \\( g(t) \\) from \\( \sin( k g(t) ) \\), where both \\( k \\) and \\( g(t) \\) are unknown. The hint is that it is easier to recover \\( g'(t) \\) than \\( g(t) \\). I am certain it's in the literature somewhere on inverting MZ modulation but it will take a while to find. This is a recovery of \\( g'(t) \\) for an LTE/MZ modulation of \\( k=3 \\) for three mixed frequency sine waves (periods 12, 25, 40)  This is a modulation of \\( k=10 \\)  Note that the only problem is that it can't decide whether the recovered signal is \\( g'(t) \\) or \\( -g'(t) \\) and switches between the two whenever a \\( 2 \pi \\) boundary is crossed. This is a slight modulation of \\( k=0.01 \\), which essentially recovers the derivative of the original mix of sine waves without switching to the opposite sine since no \\( 2 \pi \\) boundary crossings occur.  I think the approach should work fine on an ideal case once an algorithm is applied to prevent jump discontinuities when piecing together the intervals (the zero crossing points are the trickiest to handle). Whether it will work on a non-ideal signal such as ENSO is another question. This is actually an easy formulation to derive if anyone wants to give it a go.
This is the result of a basic reconstruction on the LTE/MZ modulated waveform in comment #349. The reconstructed curve picked close to the actual except where it flipped polarity as indicated. The problem is where the anticipated continuation of the curve was extrapolated close to a zero crossing (highlighted in yellow) whereafter the algorithm selected the polarity-reversed curve to continue as being an arbitrarily closer fit. This might be corrected by adding a 2nd order factor to the extrapolation.
The following amplitude spectrum is a marvelous illustration of what the LTE demodulation algorithm provides. The dotted spectrum in blue is of the raw unprocessed LTE modulation test waveform. This is a jumble of indistinct peaks spread across the spectrum -- much like an actual ENSO spectrum. In red is the reconstructed spectrum corresponding to the algorithmically demodulated LTE waveform. Here one can distinctly pick out the 3 correctly positioned sine waves that were mixed together by the LTE modulation. Interesting to also note that the smaller satellite peaks are due to the incorrect extrapolation in the previous chart, and that these will disappear with a better optimized reconstruction algorithm.
What's remarkable about this approach is the ability to reconstruct the original signal properties based on only some basic trig identities.
Comment Source:This is the result of a basic reconstruction on the LTE/MZ modulated waveform in comment #349. The reconstructed curve picked close to the actual except where it flipped polarity as indicated. The problem is where the anticipated continuation of the curve was extrapolated close to a zero crossing (highlighted in yellow) whereafter the algorithm selected the polarity-reversed curve to continue as being an arbitrarily closer fit. This might be corrected by adding a 2nd order factor to the extrapolation.  The following amplitude spectrum is a marvelous illustration of what the LTE demodulation algorithm provides. The dotted spectrum in blue is of the raw unprocessed LTE modulation test waveform. This is a jumble of indistinct peaks spread across the spectrum -- much like an actual ENSO spectrum. In red is the reconstructed spectrum corresponding to the algorithmically demodulated LTE waveform. Here one can distinctly pick out the 3 correctly positioned sine waves that were mixed together by the LTE modulation. Interesting to also note that the smaller satellite peaks are due to the incorrect extrapolation in the previous chart, and that these will disappear with a better optimized reconstruction algorithm.  What's remarkable about this approach is the ability to reconstruct the original signal properties based on only some basic trig identities.
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Name Erma Sara Stroh
Born 5 Jul 1912
Name Erma Sara Hoffer
Residence 1963 Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [1]
Residence 1973 Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Eby ID Number Waterloo-168810
Died 26 Oct 2006 Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Buried St. James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Father William R. Stroh, b. 13 Apr 1875, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada , d. 1968 (Age 92 years)
Mother Matilda Reist, b. 18 Jun 1882, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada , d. 14 Apr 1963, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (Age 80 years)
Married 18 May 1904 Conestogo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada [2]
Family Oscar Hoffer, b. 8 Jun 1906, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada , d. 16 Oct 1974 (Age 68 years)
HOFFER, Erma (Mrs. Oscar H.) - Peacefully, on Friday, October 20, 2006. At Chateau Gardens, Elmira. Erma (Stroh) Hoffer in her 95th year, of Elmira.Beloved wife of the late Oscar H. Hoffer (Oct. 16, 1974.) Dear mother of Paul Hoffer of Elmira, Joyce and Bruce Seip of Waterloo. Also lovingly remembered by her grandchildren, Tonya Karrow, Michelle Seip and Michael Seip, all of Waterloo. Erma was the last surviving member of her family, having been predeceased by her parents, William and Matilda (Reist) Stroh; three brothers, Milton, Irvin and Clarence and three sisters, Mary, Hilda and Florence. The family will receive their friends and relatives at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Monday (today) from2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. At noon on Tuesday transfer will be made to St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira for funeral service at 2 p.m. with Rev. Hans Borch officiating, followed by interment in St. James Lutheran Cemetery.In her memory, donations to the Alzheimer Society or St. James Lutheran Church Building Fund, would be appreciated by the family as expressions of sympathy.
The Record 23 Oct 2006
[S77] News - ON, Waterloo, Elmira - Elmira Signet (1893-1982), Obituary of William R. Stroh - Apr 17 1963 pg 2.
[S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 018841-04.
William R. Stroh, 29, Occ. Farmer, b. Woolwich, Res. Woolwich, son of Jost O. Stroh and Dorotha Ries married Matilda Reist, 21, b. Woolwich, Res. Woolwich, daughter of John Reist and Maria Waller, Witn: Louis R. Stroh of Elmira and Katie R. Weber of Woolwich, 18 May 1904 in Conestogo
Residence - 1963 - Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Died - 26 Oct 2006 - Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Buried - - St. James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
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Seed Producers elect new officers
August 16, 2018 Arts & Culture
Koforidua (E/R)- The Greater Accra and Eastern Regional branch of the Seed Producers Association of Ghana(SEEDPAG) has elected Mr Francis Adzalo of FKA Farms as its new President at the congress held by the branch at Koforidua.
The congress also elected Mr Joseph Amartey of Victory Farms as Vice-President, Mr Edmund Quaynor of Weku Farms as Secretary, Mr Daniel Nortey of Nortey Farms as the Treasurer and Mr James Mackeown Frimpong, immediate past President of the Association as an Executive Member.
Delivering his maiden address, the newly elected President, Mr Adzalo thanked the members for the trust they had in him and the new executives and promised to work hard with his team to take the association beyond where they met it.
Mr Joseph Agayaba, Eastern Regional Seed Inspector reminded the new executives of the association that , their predecessors sacrificed and worked hard to bring the association to the current status and urged the new leaders to aspire to add on to what had been handed over to the
The out-going President, Mr Frimpong thanked the members for their support, which enabled the association to achieve many laurels under his leadership.
He said currently, the Greater Accra and Eastern Regional branches of the association have been adjudged the as the best organised in the country and urged the members to support the new leaders to fulfil their mandate to the association.
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Multiplexed 'Touch and Tell' Optical Molecular Sensing and Imaging
Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry
This project is all about multi-disciplinary collaboration - and capitalisation in a clinical setting of the many new vistas and opportunities that will arise. As such this research programme brings together a group of world class scientists (physicists, chemists, engineers and computer experts) and clinicians to design, make and test a cutting-edge bedside technology platform which will help doctors in the intensive care unit (ICU) make rapid and accurate diagnoses that would inform therapy and ensure patients get the right treatment, quickly. While we are developing our technology platform with a focus on ICU, it will also be applicable to a wide range of other healthcare situations.
ICU patients suffer high death and disability rates and are responsible for a disproportionate financial burden on the health service. Potentially fatal lung complications are a common problem in ventilated ICU patients and doctors caring for these patients in the ICU face many challenges, often needing to make snap decisions without the information necessary to properly inform those decisions. The technology platform developed in this programme will provide doctors with important information on the state of ICU patients and whether they have infections, inflammation or scarring in their lungs. Currently there are no methods to do this accurately. This information will aid them in making decisions about treatment. A new approach to rapidly diagnose lung complications in ICU would enable doctors to target the correct drugs to the appropriate patients and to withdraw drugs with confidence, with resultant improvement in patient outcomes and major cost efficiencies - thus revolutionising ICU care.
Using advanced fibre optic technology and micro-electronics and new sensor arrays our ground-breaking solution is to create a novel fibre-based probe that can readily be passed into the gas exchanging areas of the lung and blood vessels of ICU patients. The probe will house a variety of special optical fibres, some of which allow clinicians to "view" inside the lung while others will be modified with sensors that can measure important parameters such as oxygen concentration and acidity in both blood and lung. In addition the fibre will deliver tiny amounts (microdoses) of 'smart reagents' that fluorescently detect specific bacteria and other agents that can damage the lung. When integrated together these signals will provide highly specific information about the degree or type of lung damage and the potential causative 'bug' if an infection is suspected. Because of the large amount of information generated and in order to make it easily interpreted by doctors, computing experts will convert these signals into easy-to-understand disease readouts for our clinicians.
Work on the different elements needed to create this technology platform will be undertaken by groups of chemists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and biologists working at Bath, Heriot Watt and Edinburgh universities. Crucially, this programme will bring these scientific disciplines together in a "hub" where they will work side-by-side, promoting integration of purpose and to ensure that advances are rapidly translated into the clinical setting. This interdisciplinary hub will also provide a fertile training base for new PhD students who will learn the cross-disciplinary skills that will equip them to meet the challenges of translating the current 'revolution' in physical sciences into benefit for UK healthcare.
In summary this project will generate; 1) a new cohort of scientists trained in physical and biological science that have a full appreciation of clinical translational and commercialisation pathways and who are equipped to meet the challenges of converting advances in basic science into healthcare benefit and; 2) a cutting-edge bedside technology platform which will help doctors in the ICU make rapid and accurate diagnoses.
Our proposed research programme will generate numerous avenues for the realisation of impact:
Patients: FOSIP will provide a unique opportunity for clinicians to rapidly monitor key physiological and pathological events simultaneously in the lungs and blood of critically ill patients in 'real time' at the bedside without the need for cumbersome equipment or ionizing radiation. This will permit rapid 'point-of-care diagnosis and informed decision-making in intensive care units. It will also enable patient stratification for 'personalised' new/expensive drug therapy thereby significantly reducing morbidity and mortality. FOSIP would also be readily applicable to other diseased organs accessible to fibrescopes, particularly the genitourinary tract and the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract.
NHS: Although patient numbers in ICUs are comparatively small, the economic burden is disproportionately huge. Rapid and incisive bedside diagnosis, particularly of specific infections or inflammation/scarring processes would lead to stratification of patient care and tailored prescribing patterns, including the use/non-use of expensive and potentially toxic anti-bacterials. Ultimately this would translate into reduced ventilator dependency and reduced mortality and morbidity with a proportionate economic benefit.
UK PLC: UK Healthcare must reap the dividend of the current 'revolution' in physical sciences. This research programme will deliver new leading-edge multi and cross-disciplinary research in exciting and highly translatable areas of optics, imaging, data analysis and chemistry. Our proposed programme is driven by a clear "healthcare pull" from ICU (with application to diseases in other organs); it fits squarely with EPSRC goals in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. Enabling activities through our IRC will create a new generation of scientists, engineers and technologists with a translational agenda and mind-set for the benefit of the UK economy.
Training: A central part of our agenda is to break down traditional 'barriers' between physical and biomedical sciences. The PDRA's will benefit immensely from the interdisciplinary, translational thrust of the programme and the cross-fertilisation that will derive from the 'hub' in work package 6. Moreover, through our PhD students specifically engaged in cross-disciplinary projects we will create a new cadre of scientist who are multi-skilled and equipped to meet the challenges of applying new technologies to healthcare provision in the new era. They will gain a wide variety of both "hard and soft" skills that will be readily applied in a variety of employment sectors.
Industry: All the applicants have major interactions with industry, and most have direct personal experience of spin-off/spin-out companies. As the programme progresses new commercial opportunities will undoubtedly arise in fibre technology, engineering, novel chemical probes, image analysis and computing. When the integrative capacity of the programme is realised and FOSIP is applied to human disease and its models, commercialization prospects in the global healthcare arena will be significant.
General: Our multidisciplinary programme will provide many opportunities for involvement in public engagement and dissemination. Research fellows will participate at the International Science Festivals and become involved in a variety of out-reach activities such as the 'Researchers-in-Residence Programme' which places postgraduate students in local secondary schools allowing the public to benefit, as well as engaging the next generation of scientists.
Oct 13 - Mar 19
EP/K03197X/1
Chemical measurement (40%)
Info. & commun. Technol. (60%)
Analytical Science (40%)
Digital Signal Processing (25%)
Optical Devices & Subsystems (35%)
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
University of Bath, Bath (Collaboration)
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Carestream Health Inc, United States (Project Partner)
Edinburgh Biosciences Limited, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
ST Microelectronics Limited (UK), United Kingdom (Project Partner)
UK Astronomy Technology Centre, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Mark Bradley (Principal Investigator)
Colin James Campbell (Co-Investigator)
Tim Birks (Co-Investigator)
Robert Roderick Thomson (Co-Investigator)
Christopher Haslett (Co-Investigator)
Tim Walsh (Co-Investigator)
Stephen McLaughlin (Co-Investigator)
Alan Howard Greenaway (Co-Investigator)
Jonathan Knight (Co-Investigator)
Chris Williams (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6270-4703
Rory Duncan (Co-Investigator)
Robert Kerr Henderson (Co-Investigator)
Kev Dhaliwal (Co-Investigator)
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Title PROTEUS ART EXHIBITION
Description Ron O'Donnell - Photographs
Impact • Proteus Art Exhibition - Introducing Proteus science through contemporary art. (Edinburgh/China) March 2015/ June 2015 Audience: Wider members of the public, academics, patients Engagement methods: Working with a contemporary artist to create portraits of our researchers which allowed dialogue about the specifics of their science research. Impact: High level of interest - changed hearts and minds in terms of who our scientists are and what the science can achieve- reflected in a questionnaire- high levels of satisfaction and desire to learn more. Event in China as sparked interest in examining how science communication can grow and become established in the Chinese culture - work still on going.
Title • Proteus Science Ceilidh: Smart Probes Light Up Science Ceilidh
Description • Proteus Science Ceilidh: Smart Probes Light Up Science Ceilidh (Edinburgh) December 2015 Audience: Wider members of the public (adult audience) Engagement methods: Dance and Music (using the arts to explain Smart Probe science) Impact: Increased public's appetite for more creative science engagement - learning through fun and accessible methods. More hits on Proteus website/Social Media post event. Feedback suggested participants would attend a similar event.
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Impact • Proteus Science Ceilidh: Smart Probes Light Up Science Ceilidh (Edinburgh) December 2015 Audience: Wider members of the public (adult audience) Engagement methods: Dance and Music (using the arts to explain Smart Probe science) Impact: Increased public's appetite for more creative science engagement - learning through fun and accessible methods. More hits on Proteus website/Social Media post event. Feedback suggested participants would attend a similar event.
Description New world-leading fibres for imaging and sensing - including disposable imaging fibre, Raman fibre (background free), flexible imaging fibres.
New world-leading CMSO SPAD detectors and their integration into systems that are entering clinic to allow a whole new dimension in optical medical imaging.
New world-leading chemical probes and their in-human use - for cancer margins and fibrosis and bacteria.
Major collaborations with industry to develop and push the technology in the area of cancer imaging/detection.
Highly trained staff - that are much in demand. Two PDRA's have won fellowships/gained fully independent academic positions.
Exploitation Route Many elements have gone into clinic. Many elements are being used together and combined for clinical studies - with Phase-II studies on going.
12 Patents filed and we are looking to explore these in spinout ventures and in collaboration with various companies.
Sectors Healthcare
URL http://www.proteus.ac.uk
Description We have been hugely active in the area of public engagement and advocacy. Please see the listed details for more depth - but in brief we have put in place a permeant exhibit ion the Glasgow Science centre, we worked with a local photography to put exhibits in local shopping centres, we have worked with the London Science Museum, we have (twice) been on the UK stand at AAAS and we have worked with a patient choir to help improve our standing of their needs and wants (rather than imposition). Teaching aids we have helped develop are being used in High Schools in Scotland. Clinical Translation: We have developed a regulatory pathway that has allowed us to carry out first in-human studies (both device and probes). Proteus has, to date, delivered into the clinic a device (VersiColour) and three imaging reagents (Bac- One, Bac-Two and Fib-One) Patients: Proteus is providing unique opportunities for clinicians to rapidly monitor events deep in the lungs of critically ill patients in 'real time' at the bedside. This will permit rapid point-of-care diagnosis and informed decision-making in intensive care units and patient stratification. We are actively involving patients in our programme to increase impact and involve patients in our research ideas and plans. NHS: The economic burden of ICU patients is huge. Rapid and incisive bedside diagnosis, particularly of specific infections would lead to stratification of patient care and tailored prescribing patterns, including the use/non-use of expensive and potentially toxic anti-bacterials. Ultimately this would translate into reduced antibiotic use, reduced ventilator dependency and reduced mortality and morbidity with a proportionate economic benefit. The aim of the Proteus platform is to provide in vivo in situ molecular pathological characterisation of diseased tissues, with an initial focus on the injured and inflamed lung of mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Critical care is the highest cost area of the modern hospitals with costs of >£3000 per day. In the USA, a staggering 1% of GDP is spent annually in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) environment. Key goals include delineating infection from sterile inflammation in the lung. Currently no bedside methods exist that are able to delineate pathological processes deep in the human lung in vivo in situ. Hence, the platform offers a disruptive paradigm changing technology.
Sector Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services
Description American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting 2018 - Invited to the meeting as a Flagship EPSRC project representing UK science on the main exhibition stage as well as the International Reception. Engagement Methods -Proteus Digital Lung Game - Designed by Proteus team in collaboration with Glasgow Science Centre. Impact: Raised awareness of EPSRC Proteus with UKRI CEO and wider RIUK team. Networked with senior academics, policy makers and US industries. Received media coverage for the project from the BBC.
Impact Impact: Raised awareness of EPSRC Proteus with UKRI CEO and wider RIUK team. Engaged with senior academics, policy makers and US industries and wider public. Received media coverage for the project from the BBC.
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43076783
Description Awarded The Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Grant - (Audience: Scottish Schools (students and teachers) and Research Centre for Teachers continuous Development. Engagement methods: Education tools that describe Proteus biomedical research. Impact: Embed Proteus Circuits! tools into Scottish curriculum to teach 12/13 year old students about bioengineering and its applications around health and wellbeing.
Impact Inspire Students to consider STEM subjects and careers. Teach students about biomedical engineering in new engaging ways. bridge gaps between high school teachers and university research. Empower teachers to teach students about cutting edge research. Provide training and skills for researchers to engage widely and with confidence and expertise.
URL https://proteus.ac.uk/public-engagement/ingenious/our-project-circuits/
Description House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
URL http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3a9d05fd-a47f-411f-8173-5d99a1d53327
Description Proteus Showcase Event (Edinburgh) October 2014 - Note none of the options allowed below fit ! An open text box would be more useful !
Description The Royal Society of Edinburgh AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) October 2014
Impact --
Description • ICU Engagement Event February 2016 Audience: NHS ICU staff Engagement methods: Hands on demonstrations, posters, written materials Impact: Raise awareness of Proteus Science to end users - strengthened engagement, created possibilities for ongoing dialogue. • ICU Research Nurses Event February 2018 Audience: NHS ICU Research nurses Engagement methods: Hands on demonstrations, posters, written materials Impact: Raise awareness of Proteus Science to research nurses who may use Proteus technology. Introduced nurses to members of the Proteus team, strengthen engagement and interdisciplinary work.
Description • Public and Patient Involvement - Funding Award Received from ACCORD February 2018 Audience: Respiratory Patients (Breathtakers and Breatheasy) Engagement methods: Dialogue sessions with patients, creative story telling workshops Impact: Creation of Proteus research pod at Glasgow science. Work ongoing to develop pilot studies for patient engagement using the Proteus interdisciplinarity model as an engagement framework.
Description • Science and the Parliament (Edinburgh) November 2016 Audience: MPs, Senior Academics, Industry, Healthcare Professionals Engagement methods: Hands on demonstrations, videos, written materials Impact: Raise awareness of Proteus Science, forged a link with Scottish Chief Medical Officer - arranged meeting to visit Proteus labs post event.
Description Accurate, Rapid, Robust and Economical diagnostic technoliogieS for Tuberculosis
Description EPSRC IRC Proteus - Multiplexed 'Touch and Tell' Optical Molecular Sensing and Imaging - Lifetime and Beyond
Funding ID EP/R005257/1
Description IRC Next Steps Plus: Photonic Pathogen Theranostics - Point-of-care image guided photonic therapy of bacterial and fungal infection
Description IRC Next steps funding
Description Multi-modal Manufacturing of Medical Devices (4MD)
Description Next generation endoscopes
Funding ID EP/S001123/1
Description Next-Generation Sensing For Human In Vivo Pharmacology- Accelerating Drug Development In Inflammatory Diseases
Description Single Photons - Expanding the Spectrum (SPEXS)
Description Through-body TCSPC based real-time tracking to guide interventional medical procedures
Funding ID ST/S000763/1
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)
Description WT/CARB-X (none of the "type of funding" given below are really suitable)
Title Data for "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers"
Description The data supporting the results presented in the paper "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers". This body of work is designed to provide an indication of the imaging performance of a novel, high resolution imaging coherent fibre bundle fabricated in the University of Bath's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials' facilities. Traditionally, the imaging fibres such as those used in medical endoscopes consist of solid doped and undoped silica glass. The novelty of our design is in having the cladding that is comprised of air-filled silica capillaries, achieving a cladding index close to that of air. This increase in index contrast with the cores (still solid doped silica) provides a higher numerical aperture waveguide. As a result, the light is better confined to the cores, and higher resolution, or a wider operational bandwidth, can be achieved.
Title Data for Quantitative characterisation of imaging fibres
Description Images, code and data used to produce the figures in the paper Quantitative characterisation of imaging fibres.
Title Data for the publication: Low index contrast imaging fibers
Description This contains the images and raw data presented in the paper Low index contrast imaging fibres published in Optics Letters. The data includes the individual images used to demonstrate how the new fibres are made and the raw data used to determine the performance of the imaging fibres presented in the publication.
Title Dataset for Ultra-low background Raman sensing using a negative-curvature fibre and no distal optics
Description Collected data for the results presented in "Ultra-low background Raman sensing using a negative-curvature fibre and no distal optics" demonstrating the use of a single hollow core negative curvature fibre for Raman and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sensing. This new optical fibre shows a 1000x background reduction compared to conventional fibres while maintaining the same collection efficiency. The dataset includes Raman and SERS spectra from different samples and attenuation data for a range of wavelengths for the negative curvature fibre.
Description This is an IRC - it is by definition a collaboration
Organisation Heriot-Watt University
PI Contribution The IRC team comprises the Universities of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Bath.
Collaborator Contribution Massive collaborations (please see the web site www.proteus.ac.uk)
Impact Please see list of publications/patents/engagement activities on the Proteus web site.
Organisation University of Bath
Title - OPTICAL PROBE FOR THROMBIN
Description OPTICAL PROBE FOR THROMBIN
IP Reference WO2016151297
Protection Patent application published
Year Protection Granted
Licensed Commercial In Confidence
Impact Confidential
Title A SENSING STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING A SENSING STRUCTURE
Description A SENSING STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING A SENSING STRUCTURE
Title ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD
Description ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD
Impact Confidentail
Title FLUORESCENT POLYBRANCHED PROBES FOR DETECTING BACTERIA AND/OR FUNGI IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Description FLUORESCENT POLYBRANCHED PROBES FOR DETECTING BACTERIA AND/OR FUNGI IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Title FRAME SELECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGE DATA
Description FRAME SELECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGE DATA
Title FRET MOLECULAR PROBES WITH CLEAVABLE LINKERS FOR DETECTING BACTERIA AND/OR FUNGI IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Description FRET MOLECULAR PROBES WITH CLEAVABLE LINKERS FOR DETECTING BACTERIA AND/OR FUNGI IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Title Molecular probes for detecting gram-negative bacteria in vitro and in vivo
Description Molecular probes for detecting gram-negative bacteria in vitro and in vivo
Title OPTICAL IMAGING PROBES
Description OPTICAL IMAGING PROBES
Protection Patent granted
Year Protection Granted 2017
Title OPTICAL PROBES FOR MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES (the question below is wrong - protection is not received from a filing or if the PCT is published it has to go through national phases - and I cannot add this unless I put a date).
Description OPTICAL PROBES FOR MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES
Title OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD
Description A system comprises a waveguide apparatus comprising a plurality of input waveguides, a multimode waveguide, and a guided-wave transition coupling the plurality of input waveguides to the multimode waveguide. The system further comprises at least one light source configured to excite in turn each of a plurality of the input waveguides, or each of a plurality of combinations of the input waveguides, thereby generating a plurality of different light patterns in turn at an output of the waveguide apparatus. The waveguide apparatus is configured to direct each of the plurality of different light patterns to a target region. The system further comprises at least one detector configured to detect light transmitted, reflected or emitted from the target region in response to each of the different light patterns, and to output signals representing the detected light.
Title SERS PROBE COMPRISING A DUAL-CORE OPTICAL FIBER AND A SPACER ONTO WHICH SERS-ACTIVE NANOPARTICLES ARE ATTACHED
Description SERS PROBE COMPRISING A DUAL-CORE OPTICAL FIBER AND A SPACER ONTO WHICH SERS-ACTIVE NANOPARTICLES ARE ATTACHED
Title Bac-II
Description Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest x-ray. The correct management for ARDS is identifying the underlying condition causing the deterioration and identifying appropriate targeted therapy. One such cause is pneumonia, caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs of a ventilated patient. The patients may have been ventilated due to pneumonia but they may also develop pneumonia whilst ventilated. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has significant mortality. Despite all the clinical and laboratory data at the investigators' disposal there remains great difficulty in the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia and therefore treatment is often given empirically. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for accurate methods to diagnose the presence of bacteria deep in the lung in ventilated critically ill patients. As such, the investigating team have developed and synthesised an imaging agent called BAC TWO. BAC TWO will be instilled directly into the lungs of 12 patients to assess whether it can label gram-negative bacteria in the human lung.
Type Diagnostic Tool - Imaging
Current Stage Of Development Early clinical assessment
Year Development Stage Completed 2016
Development Status Under active development/distribution
Clinical Trial? Yes
Impact Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest x-ray. The correct management for ARDS is identifying the underlying condition causing the deterioration and identifying appropriate targeted therapy. One such cause is pneumonia, caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs of a ventilated patient. The patients may have been ventilated due to pneumonia but they may also develop pneumonia whilst ventilated. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has significant mortality. Despite all the clinical and laboratory data at the investigators' disposal there remains great difficulty in the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia and therefore treatment is often given empirically. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for accurate methods to diagnose the presence of bacteria deep in the lung in ventilated critically ill patients. As such, the investigating team have developed and synthesised an imaging agent called BAC TWO. BAC TWO will be instilled directly into the lungs of 12 patients to assess whether it can label gram-negative bacteria in the human lung.
URL https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02491164?term=NCT02491164&rank=1
Title Exploratory clinical study of intrapulmonary microdosing of the BACterial detection probe (BAC ONE)
Description Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest x-ray. The correct management for ARDS is identifying the underlying condition causing the deterioration and identifying appropriate targeted therapy. One such cause is pneumonia, caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs of a ventilated patient. The patients may have been ventilated due to pneumonia but they may also develop pneumonia whilst ventilated. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has significant mortality. Despite all the clinical and laboratory data at the investigators' disposal there remains great difficulty in the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia and therefore treatment is often given empirically. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for accurate methods to diagnose the presence of bacteria deep in the lung in ventilated critically ill patients. As such, the investigating team have developed and synthesised an imaging agent called BAC ONE. BAC ONE will be instilled directly into the lungs of 12 patients (with and without lung infection) to assess whether it can label bacteria in the human lung.
Impact Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest x-ray. The correct management for ARDS is identifying the underlying condition causing the deterioration and identifying appropriate targeted therapy. One such cause is pneumonia, caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs of a ventilated patient. The patients may have been ventilated due to pneumonia but they may also develop pneumonia whilst ventilated. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has significant mortality. Despite all the clinical and laboratory data at the investigators' disposal there remains great difficulty in the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia and therefore treatment is often given empirically. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for accurate methods to diagnose the presence of bacteria deep in the lung in ventilated critically ill patients. As such, the investigating team have developed and synthesised an imaging agent called BAC ONE. BAC ONE will be instilled directly into the lungs of 12 patients (with and without lung infection) to assess whether it can label bacteria in the human lung.
Title Exploratory study to optically visualise activated neutrophils and the proto-oncogene, c-MET, in lung masses using DUAL colour fibre-based endomicroscopy (DUAL)
Description Lung cancer is currently a major health problem in the UK. Despite being one of the most common cancers, lung cancer has a poor prognosis compared to other types of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. As opposed to other organs, the lung is highly susceptible to inflammatory insults, for example from bacterial infection-induced and tobacco-induced inflammation. It has long been known that the cellular microenvironment that nurtures tumour growth and development is linked to sites of chronic inflammation but molecular insights into how external inflammation boosts or inhibits cancer in the lungs remains unclear. This study aims to directly visualise the expression of a well known marker of cancerous tissue, c-MET, and the activity of neutrophils in human lung cancer in vivo in situ using fibre-based endomicroscopy.
Impact Lung cancer is currently a major health problem in the UK. Despite being one of the most common cancers, lung cancer has a poor prognosis compared to other types of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. As opposed to other organs, the lung is highly susceptible to inflammatory insults, for example from bacterial infection-induced and tobacco-induced inflammation. It has long been known that the cellular microenvironment that nurtures tumour growth and development is linked to sites of chronic inflammation but molecular insights into how external inflammation boosts or inhibits cancer in the lungs remains unclear. This study aims to directly visualise the expression of a well known marker of cancerous tissue, c-MET, and the activity of neutrophils in human lung cancer in vivo in situ using fibre-based endomicroscopy.
Title FIB-ONE
Description Brief Summary: While the process of fibrosis is essential for normal wound healing, an excessive and uncontrolled 'fibrotic' response can result in impaired tissue structure and function. In other words, affected 'fibrotic' tissues are unable to heal back to normal and therefore don't work as effectively as they normally would. In the case of the lung, fibrosis can occur across large parts of the lung such as in conditions like Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis or it can occur in much smaller patches such as around the borders of some lung tumours. At the moment the investigators don't fully understand the mechanisms of fibrosis and so therefore cannot monitor or treat these conditions as effectively as the investigators could. Despite the significant global financial burden of these diseases, treatment options are very limited and monitoring of disease progression remains a real challenge. In an effort to address this problem, the research team have designed and synthesised an imaging agent (FIB ONE) that can detect fibrosis in the lung. FIB ONE will be used at very low concentrations in patients with a lung condition characterised by excessive activity of the fibroproliferative pathway either scheduled for a routine bronchoscopy or elective surgery. FIB ONE will be administered directly into the lungs during a bronchoscopy procedure and images of the lungs will be analysed. As part of this study, the research team's novel endomicroscopy detection system will be compared to equipment that is routinely used in the NHS when imaging the FIB ONE probe.
Impact Brief Summary: While the process of fibrosis is essential for normal wound healing, an excessive and uncontrolled 'fibrotic' response can result in impaired tissue structure and function. In other words, affected 'fibrotic' tissues are unable to heal back to normal and therefore don't work as effectively as they normally would. In the case of the lung, fibrosis can occur across large parts of the lung such as in conditions like Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis or it can occur in much smaller patches such as around the borders of some lung tumours. At the moment the investigators don't fully understand the mechanisms of fibrosis and so therefore cannot monitor or treat these conditions as effectively as the investigators could. Despite the significant global financial burden of these diseases, treatment options are very limited and monitoring of disease progression remains a real challenge. In an effort to address this problem, the research team have designed and synthesised an imaging agent (FIB ONE) that can detect fibrosis in the lung. FIB ONE will be used at very low concentrations in patients with a lung condition characterised by excessive activity of the fibroproliferative pathway either scheduled for a routine bronchoscopy or elective surgery. FIB ONE will be administered directly into the lungs during a bronchoscopy procedure and images of the lungs will be analysed. As part of this study, the research team's novel endomicroscopy detection system will be compared to equipment that is routinely used in the NHS when imaging the FIB ONE probe.
Title SNAP-IT (NAP IN ICU)
Description Critically ill patients often succumb to acute respiratory disease (rapidly developing disease affecting the lungs). The lungs are the commonest organ to fail and require support in the intensive care environment. However, no accurate methods exist that can be used at the bedside to tell what is causing deterioration in a person's lungs. There are various examples of acute respiratory diseases that can occur as a result of numerous different causes, have a high risk of death and cannot be treated easily with drugs. When trying to accurately diagnose and classify these lung diseases there is a risk that the type of respiratory disease is misdiagnosed, missed or the level of severity is not captured. By using the field of optical molecular imaging and employing novel techniques and technologies, the investigators hope to demonstrate here that a bespoke chemical probe administered in micro doses (tiny doses) directly into the distal lung can rapidly and accurately detect activated neutrophils (cells of the immune system that are implicated in the development of these severe conditions), and so work towards a bedside test which could be used to diagnose, monitor and classify the disease in patients who are critically ill in the future. The population for this study are in intensive care where patients are normally intubated (have a breathing tube) due to the severity of their illness, this may be because of respiratory problems or respiratory problems can rapidly develop. Participants will have the chemical probe administered into their lungs and pictures taken through the tube already in place. As this probe lights up when it comes into contact with neutrophils the investigators will be able to tell if neutrophils are present. This will inform a larger study in which it's hoped that the method can be used to inform clinical decisions. The first procedure will take place within two days of initiation of mechanical ventilation and the direct contact with the study team will be completed within nine days.
Impact Critically ill patients often succumb to acute respiratory disease (rapidly developing disease affecting the lungs). The lungs are the commonest organ to fail and require support in the intensive care environment. However, no accurate methods exist that can be used at the bedside to tell what is causing deterioration in a person's lungs. There are various examples of acute respiratory diseases that can occur as a result of numerous different causes, have a high risk of death and cannot be treated easily with drugs. When trying to accurately diagnose and classify these lung diseases there is a risk that the type of respiratory disease is misdiagnosed, missed or the level of severity is not captured. By using the field of optical molecular imaging and employing novel techniques and technologies, the investigators hope to demonstrate here that a bespoke chemical probe administered in micro doses (tiny doses) directly into the distal lung can rapidly and accurately detect activated neutrophils (cells of the immune system that are implicated in the development of these severe conditions), and so work towards a bedside test which could be used to diagnose, monitor and classify the disease in patients who are critically ill in the future. The population for this study are in intensive care where patients are normally intubated (have a breathing tube) due to the severity of their illness, this may be because of respiratory problems or respiratory problems can rapidly develop. Participants will have the chemical probe administered into their lungs and pictures taken through the tube already in place. As this probe lights up when it comes into contact with neutrophils the investigators will be able to tell if neutrophils are present. This will inform a larger study in which it's hoped that the method can be used to inform clinical decisions. The first procedure will take place within two days of initiation of mechanical ventilation and the direct contact with the study team will be completed within nine days.
Description AAAS Meeting 2019
Results and Impact AAAS Meeting 2019 - Invited to the meeting as a Flagship EPSRC project representing UK science on the main exhibition stage as well as the International Reception.
Audience: American Academics, Members of Congress, American Industries, RIUK team lead by Sir Mark Walport (CEO) World Media Teams, Global stakeholders (academics, policy makers) students and wider publics
Engagement methods: Proteus Technology Versicolour
Impact: Raised awareness of EPSRC Proteus with UKRI CEO and wider RIUK team. Networked with senior academics, policy makers and US industries. Created new collaborations with industrial partners
URL https://www.ukri.org/aaas/
Description Development of an ICU Patient and Public Involvement Group
Results and Impact Public and Patient Involvement -I CU PPI GROUP
Audience: ICU Patients and families
Engagement methods: Dialogue sessions with patients, partnership building activities, developing PPI projects
Impact: Creation of Edinburgh's first ICU PPI group, working with the Critical Care Team in Edinburgh and nationally with ICU Steps - has allowed ICU patients to take part in Proteus engagement activities and has strengthen Proteus' PPI portfolio
URL https://www.ed.ac.uk/clinical-sciences/divisionpgdi/anaesthesia/news-views/icusteps-patient-and-fami...
Description EPSRC Our Health - Dr Henk Mulder Visit (Science Shop Expert, The University of Groningen)
Results and Impact EPSRC Our Health - Dr Henk Mulder Visit (Science Shop Expert, The University of Groningen)
Audience: Local community, patient groups, undergraduates/postgraduates, academics and Public Engagement Professionals
Engagement methods: Presentation and workshop
Impact: Dr Henk Mulder's visit for part of a University wide consultation around the Science Shop model for community/patient engagement and resulted in the funding and launch of Our Health
Description EPSRC Our Health - The First UK Interdisciplinary Science Shop
Results and Impact EPSRC Our Health - The First UK Interdisciplinary Science Shop
Engagement methods: Community based research projects around Health and well being
Impact: EPSRC Our Health (within first 6 months of launch) has created national and international impact. Our Health was selected to host the Experienced Practice Learning Exchange for international delegates as part of The National Co ordinating Centre's National ENGAGE 2018 Conference.
EPSRC Our Health has also been asked to work in partnership with UKRI International PE team to develop global projects for Our Health. Our Health has impacted the local community by creating new knowledge around health and well being with community partners.
URL https://proteus.ac.uk/public-engagement/developing-community-partnerships/our-health/about-our-healt...
Description Living Knowledge 2018
Results and Impact Living Knowledge 2018 - Invited as a speaker to the Living Knowledge Confrenec (Budapest) to present EPSRC Our Health and share best practice around this new Interdisciplinary model of a science shop
Audience: International Public Engagement Delegates and Community partners
Engagement methods: Workshops, presentations and visits to local communities to talk with people about their involvement in PE.
Impact: EPSRC Our Health is now established with in the European community and is part of a wider network and a leader in the field of interdisciplinary community research
URL https://www.livingknowledge.org/lk8/
Description Proteus Partnership with Msc Science Communication Programme
Results and Impact Proteus Partnership with Msc Science Communication Programme
Audience: Eight Science Communication Master Students work with Proteus each year engaging wider publics and community partners.
Engagement methods: science writing, activity based presentations, dialogic workshops and creative co inquiry.
Impact: developed a community of public engagement practice throughout the university and with local universities. Sharing of best practice, improving quality and impact of public engagement work. Work created by students have promoted and raised the profile of Proteus across a wide range of project stakeholders.
Description Proteus Public Engagement (PE) Strategic Influence
Results and Impact Proteus Public Engagement (PE) Strategic Influence - Proteus represented at the Strategic PE Group, The University of Edinburgh
Audience: Senior colleagues working within PE and members of the wider public, The University of Edinburgh (UoE)
Engagement methods: Committee discussions, development of UoE PE strategy
Impact: Proteus PE influences the strategic direction of PE for The University of Edinburgh
URL https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/research-roles/public-engagement/pe-strategy
Description Science at Heriot Watt 2018
Results and Impact Science at Heriot Watt 2018 (Heriot Watt University)
Audience: Wider Public
Engagement methods: Hands on demonstrations, activities and storytelling
Impact: Raise awareness of Proteus Science with family audience. Strengthened links with Heriot Watt University.
Description The Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh)
Results and Impact The Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh)
Impact: Raised awareness of Proteus Science with family audiences. Created interest amongst researcher working in infectious diseases in Roslin centre - formed new collaboration with Dr Kenneth Ballie around PE activities
Description The International Edinburgh Book Festival - EPSRC Proteus/ EPSRC Our Health
Results and Impact The International Edinburgh Book Festival
Engagement methods: Hands on demonstrations and research art exhibition. Our Health students and community partners formed a choir and sang.
Impact: Principal of The University of Edinburgh attended and gave strong support for Proteus/Our Health. As a consequence of this event the The University of Edinburgh, Proteus/Our Health and The International Edinburgh Book Festival have agreed to work together on further PE activities
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SIXX A.M. “THIS IS GONNA HURT” LANDS IN BILLBOARD TOP 10. VAN HALEN TO HEADLINE SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL. TIMELY “PRECIOUS NOW” VIDEO FROM NERANATURE
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“This Is Gonna Hurt”, the sophomore album from SIXX: A.M. — the band consisting of Nikki Sixx (also of MÖTLEY CRÜE), DJ Ashba (also of GUNS N’ ROSES) and James Michael — sold 30,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. Released on May 3, the 11-track CD is a companion piece to Sixx‘s “This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx” book, a follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, “The Heroin Diaries”.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” is part photo, part journal — but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling snapshots and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Told with the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller “The Heroin Diaries”, “This Is Gonna Hurt” chronicles Sixx‘s experience, from references to his early years filled with toxic waste to his success with MÖTLEY CRÜE, his death from an OD and rebirth to his addictions to music, photography, and love along with the journey of photographing these images over the past couple of years.
The “This Is Gonna Hurt” album as a whole deals with many raw, human issues. Nikki talks about the CD as “pulling back the veil on your internal truth,” saying, “We are who we are…Either poisonous and evil or honest and willing… Willing to make a difference… I haven’t led the life of a saint nor do I intend on it now.” The album — produced entirely by James Michael with writing credits going to Sixx, Michael, Ashba and band friends John William Lowrey and Blair Daly — dives deep into meandering emotions through epic melodies. The resulting work is a deep, dark and intoxicatingly addictive mix of sounds and passion.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” album track listing:
01. This Is Gonna Hurt
02. Lies of the Beautiful People
03. Are You With Me
04. Live Forever
05. Sure Feels Right
06. Deadlihood
07. Smile
08. Help Is On the Way
09. Oh My God
10. Goodbye My Friends
11. Skin
Songwriting credits:
* This is Gonna Hurt
(Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
* Lies Of The Beautiful People (Michael, Sixx,
John William Lowrey, Ashba)
* Live Forever (Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
Are You With Me Now (Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
* Sure Feels Right
* Deadlihood (Michael, Sixx, Blair Daly)
Smile (Michael, Sixx)
* Oh My God (Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
Goodbye Dear Friends (Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
* Skin (Michael,
Blair Daly)
* Help Is On The Way (Michael, Sixx, Ashba)
SIXX: A.M. to announce a run of tour dates in support of the release.
“Lies Of The Beautiful People” video:
According to the Facebook page of Australia’s new travelling festival Soundwave Revolution, VAN HALEN, ALICE COOPER, BAD RELIGION, HOLE,MACHINE HEAD, DANZIG, ALTER BRIDGE, SISTERS OF MERCY, VERSA EMERGE and THE PRETTY RECKLESS have been confirmed for the event, which will take place in late September/early October.
The festival billing is shaping up as follows:
ATTACK!
DESTROY REBUILD UNTIL GOD SHOWS
I DIE
FRAMING HANLEY
FUNERAL FOR A
MADINA LAKE
MAKE DO
AND MEND
SET YOUR GOALS
SISTERS OF
TERRIBLE THINGS
THE DANGEROUS
THE SWELLERS
THE USED
THIS PROVIDENCE
TIMES OF
VERSA EMERGE
WE ARE THE IN
WE ARE THE OCEAN
Soundwave Revolution 2011 dates:
Saturday, Sep. 24 – Brisbane Revolution
Sunday, Sep. 25 – Sydney Revolution
Friday, Sep. 30 – Melbourne Revolution
Saturday, Oct. 1 – Adelaide Revolution
Monday, Oct. 3 – Perth Revolution For more information, visit the festival’s official web site.
Nera, the singer of the Polish metal band DARZAMAT, released her
debut solo album, “Foresting Wounds”, under the name NERANATURE on
May 9 in Europe via Metal Mind Productions. The CD will be made available
on July 12 in the U.S. through MVD.
A video for the track
“Precious Now”, which was shot and edited by a young artist going by the
pseudonym Stanley McNoly, can be viewed below.
Nera: “Actually we chose the song ‘Precious Now’ months ago, since
it’s one of my favorite tracks on the album. The script was being shaped in my
head week after week, though shooting the video took us only a couple of days.
On the literal level, it’s about running away from the city to slow down the
pace, gather one’s thoughts, to spend some time in solitude. The lyrics, in
turn, are about enjoying the ‘here and now,’ leaving all troublesome memories
behind, as also breaking free from the snares of one’s plans for the future. All
we have is this passing moment…”
Formed in 2009, NERANATURE
“appeared as a space where the air is filled with matters lingering in
[Nera‘s] head, a bit more intimate, private and sometimes bizarre and
freakish,” according to a press release.
“I’ve been waiting for a long
time for the right place and time to find an outlet for my personal thoughts and
beliefs,” explains Nera. “This is the time and place.” The idea appealed
to Chris, the guitarist of DARZAMAT, who created the base for the
melodies and completed the project with his music.
The name of the band
is a combination of two words: Nera, which is the nickname of the vocalist, and
Nature, which represents a reflection of a deep connection with the environment.
It can also be interpreted as the nature of Nera — a diversity of views
reflected in the songs. The feminine character of lyrics imbued with the
feminist outlook on life constitutes one the most significant elements of the
projects, touching upon such issues as man’s detachment from nature and running
away from himself/herself. The approach presented in the album is not only the
singer’s artistic pose, as Nera has been an engaged animal-rights activist and a
vegetarian for the last 15 years.
The music of NERANATURE can be
categorized as a mixture of atmospheric rock/metal, ambient and trip rock.
“Foresting Wounds” contains ten compositions — ranging from
sensuous ballads to more energetic songs — which were produced by Jaroslaw
Toifl.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
02. Precious Now
03. Shattered
06. Dormant
06. Defective
07. Before
08. Some Air
09. Woman’s Soul
10. Scar
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Grandpa Rome
ローマ帝国
Name: Ancient Rome (Imperium Romanum)
Human Name: Unknown
Alternative Spelling(s): N/A
Age: in human age , it is said that Grandpa Rome is 49 years old
Birthday: Unknown
Eye Color: Brown (manga), Amber (anime)
First Appearance (volume): Volume 1
First Appearance (strip): Chibitalia
First Appearance (anime): Episode 01, Episode 18 (speaking)
Japanese VA: Hozumi Gōda
English VA: Christopher R. Sabat
Ancient Rome (ローマ帝国, Rōma Teikoku), also known as Grandpa Rome, Roma Antiqua, and Roman Empire, is a character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. He is the grandfather to both North Italy and South Italy.
2 Personality And Interests
3.1 Germania
3.2 North Italy
3.3 South Italy
4 In the Anime
5 Character Songs
Younger Rome in color
In his first appearance in the Chibitalia strips in the webcomic (later reprinted in volume 1 of the published manga), he is shown as an elderly man with a mustache and is dressed in a white beret and robe.
In the prologue to the first volume and the first anime episode, a younger incarnation of him is shown, dressed in armor and a cape. He is deeply tanned, and both his hair and eyes are dark browns. Like his grandsons, he has a wild curl in his hair, but two of them (one on the upper right side of his head, and one on the lower left side). In the earliest color illustration known to exist, he was depicted with green eyes.
He appears once in the story Together with Grandpa Rome to Germany as the younger incarnation, and is shown to have existed way back in the BC days of Rome (with his older appearance presumably being how he looked in AD).
Personality And Interests[edit | edit source]
He was once the great ruler of the Mediterranean Sea and the strongest nation, though none of his grandchildren inherited his success. He is said to have fallen in love with both Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt at first sight, and that he overflows with excitement at the sight of a strong man.
He enjoys cute girls, art, music, and food.
Germania[edit | edit source]
Main article: Germania
An enemy of Rome, who was once his guard at some point in time, but soon became his enemy as their hatred ran deep to their bones. Germania was the one to deliver the killing blow to Rome, and died himself sometime after, though that period of time still remains hazy.
North Italy[edit | edit source]
Main article: Italy
The heir apparent to Rome's fortune, the young Feliciano spent an indeterminate amount of time living and traveling with his grandfather until Rome eventually grew weak and vulnerable due to his empire crumbling.
Due to what happened to his grandfather, Italy refused to become a new Roman Empire. Though he didn't inherit Rome's success, he did get his natural talents for art and trade.
South Italy[edit | edit source]
Main article: South Italy
The older of Rome's two known grandchildren, South Italy was overlooked and felt inferior, due to his brother inheriting their grandfather's talents (as well as apparently taking after Rome more in physical appearance).
In the Anime[edit | edit source]
Rome in the anime
Rome first appears in Episode 01, in both the prologue and the Chibitalia segment. While he was portrayed as an older man in the manga version of Chibitalia, he is shown younger and in his armor in the anime version.
In Episode 11, a brief flashback image is shown of a weak and scarred Rome as Chibitalia tells Holy Roman Empire of his demise. As with his earlier appearance in the anime version of the story arc, he is depicted in his younger incarnation in that scene (rather than his older, mustached appearance).
An apparition of Rome appears in Episode 18, interrupting both of the Allied Forces' attacks on the Axis in order to perform a song about nations' roles in "heaven and hell" on Earth. His sudden appearances cause the Allied Forces to retreat in fear each time, though Italy is able to recognize the mysterious ghost as having been his grandfather. This is Rome's first speaking role.
In the anime, Rome's skin tone is much lighter and his eyes were changed to an amber color.
Character Songs[edit | edit source]
Roma Antiqua
Ren-Ren-Renaissance (featured)
Heaven and Hell on Earth
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Valve Is Possibly Working On A New Controller, According To A New Patent Filed
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In the gaming hardware world, Valve’s Steam controller is notoriously laughable. The product was aimed at allowing players to enjoy their Steam collection on their television regardless of whether they allowed controller support.
Arguably the biggest selling point was the two high-fidelity trackpads on the controller, which were programmable to match the needs of any game. It also featured haptic force actuators, dual-stage triggers, and excellent ergonomic control.
A new patent has been published from Valve of a Steam Controller with swap-able components. pic.twitter.com/8X5IiKIHvm
— Tyler McVicker (@ValveNewsNetwor) April 11, 2020
It never caught on, though the Steam reviews (you know, Valve’s gaming program where they could easily control reviews) are generally quite positive. And in truth, despite the reputation, it really isn’t a bad controller – it isn’t necessarily great, but it certainly wasn’t an Ouya controller. Unfortunately, Valve discontinued it due to a lack of popularity, with the last of the controllers being sold out on a mass-clearance sale of only $5 (plus shipping) towards the end of last year.
Really, it isn’t a bad end to the controller’s story, as Valve managed to sell them all out. Granted, the last of them needed to be drastically cut in price, selling for $5 instead of the $50 price tag it normally carried, but there weren’t any of them being dumped in landfills – by Valve, anyway.
But it looks like the controller may be seeing a revival. Tyler McVicker, creator of Valve News Network and Livestreamer, discovered a patent that had been registered for a controller by Valve. We’ve placed the patent above, if you’d like to glance through it for legitimacy.
The publication date is set as the 26th of March, a bit more than two weeks ago, so it doesn’t seem to be an old patent that just came to light (though it was filed in September of 2019, before the last of the Steam controllers sold out). It features swappable components, titled, fittingly, “HANDHELD CONTROLLERS WITH SWAPPABLE CONTROLS” up in the top right. It’s confirmed to be Valve’s patent under the applications, where Valve Corporation is named above an array of US-based inventors.
So does this mean we’re seeing a revival of the Steam controller? After all, the device does have a cult following, and despite the joking reputation that much of the gaming community has, they could likely sell a good amount more – especially if they drop the price to not be just barely cheaper than a triple-A title.
Either way, the focus on customizability seems like they’re coming in to rival the new console generation’s hardware. We’ll have to wait and see if Valve announces anything, but we might be getting our touchpad-controllers back!
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Modernising healthcare via digitisation
Public acceptance of electronic health on the rise
Focused on updating healthcare through digitisation, 41 experts and around 500 delegates gathered for the 4th ‘Digital Health Conference’ late in 2019. At the Berlin venue, they focused on solutions such as the potential lack of skilled staff, demographic changes, urbanisation and multimorbidity.
Report: Cornelia Wels-Maug
The organiser, Bitkom, the German digital association which represents more than 2,600 communications companies, had also organised a representative survey of the country’s general public, with results that reflect the positive attitude towards digital offerings in healthcare across all age groups: Of the 1,005 people surveyed, 65% stated they would utilise the electronic health file; 63% confirmed that they would use electronic prescriptions and 30% stated that they would be happy to discuss their symptoms with their family doctor during online appointments, instead of visiting the surgery. That level of acceptance is an important prerequisite for the modernisation of the healthcare system.
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, appealed to doctors to accept the need for obligatory connection to the telematics infrastructure
Digitisation as a political mandate
In his keynote speech, Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, stated that he was ‘accelerating digitisation’ to create ‘comprehensive and efficient healthcare’. It is hoped that digitisation will also ‘maintain and win back the trust’ which the German public had lost over the debacle around the electronic health card, which he referred to as the ‘healthcare equivalent of the saga around the new Berlin Airport’. Spahn also appealed to doctors to accept the need for obligatory connection to the telematics infrastructure, which should make day-to-day communication with patients easier. Furthermore, the Minister urged for the utilisation of the innovation potential inherent in digitisation and not to limit discussions only to data protection and data sovereignty. To this extent, Spahn called for an active, balanced debate to ascertain how technology can benefit staff and improve healthcare.
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Which solutions look particularly promising? Digitisation is a means to an end to achieve better medical care, confirmed Dr Barbara Holtz, Expert Business Consultant at Dassault Systèmes, but also queried ‘What does better look like?’ Some examples of successful digitally supported offerings were introduced at the conference. Thomas Friese, SVP Digital Platform at Siemens Healthineers, explained the potential of clinical decision-making support systems when imaging procedures are needed for diagnoses. This is particularly important, given that a survey showed 26% of image studies in the USA do not correspond with the diagnosis because the doctors do not quite come to correct conclusions from the patients’ information.
Holtz spoke of the development of personalised therapies, using the concept of a digital twin, and about apps for data acquisition. Using this data, the industry wants to model possible effects of, and reactions to, medication to help improve processes and exclude risks in advance. This concept is based on the automotive industry where the first five models of a production line are routinely crashed to achieve better products more quickly and to save costs.
Holger Müller, Business Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems, explained that knowledge around IT security is not yet comprehensive enough: whilst around 90 – 95% of the IT budget is invested in ‘block and protect’ concepts, not enough funds are pooled into solutions as to what should be done once a security issue has occurred. Müller pointed out the necessity of a ‘data lost prevention strategy’ as not all data needs to be protected in the same way. He also emphasised the importance of an application lifecycle policy, because it provides a continuous audit which verifies, in real time, that an application behaves according to its original certification, to ensure that it can be detected at once when an application causes traffic which it did not use to cause.
James Fischer MD, of Roche Diabetes Care Germany, talked about the big advantages for diabetics resulting from the use of a digital diary over a manual diary, using the mySugr App as an example. ‘Diabetes is a data management disease,’ explained Fischer. Optimum glucose level management for patients requires the acquisition of data, specifically for carbohydrates and other foods consumed, and for sleep duration. Studies have shown that the use of the mySugr App can lower the blood sugar levels by an average of 10.4 percentage points.
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Professor Jörg Debatin, Chairman of the Health Innovation Hub at the Federal Ministry of Health, summed up that digitisation should be perceived to be going well beyond purely technological innovations. Digitisation of healthcare requires acceptance, as well as digital values and digital humanism. It also requires comprehensive training in the use of anonymised data and transparency with regards to the values which the algorithms are based on. By the time we achieve this, several updates will have been carried out already.
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China running propaganda campaigns to hide coronavirus response
China is working on keeping a lid on information coming out of Wuhan about the coronavirus pandemic, warning lawyers not to help people sue the government and interrogating mourning family members of those stricken – as critics of the response disappear, according to a report.
As part of the crackdown, the Communist Party propaganda has portrayed the dead as martyrs rather than victims and censors have removed early news reports that exposed Beijing’s efforts to hide the severity of the outbreak, the New York Times reported.
“They are worried that if people defend their rights, the international community will know what the real situation is like in Wuhan and the true experiences of the families there,” activist Yang Zhanqing told the newspaper.
Yang, who is living in New York after he was detained briefly in China, said Wuhan residents who lost loved ones to COVID-19 reached out to him via text to seek his help to sue the government.
But after weeks of communication, Yang said the seven people suddenly changed their minds or quit responding late last month.
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Yang said at least two of them were threatened by the police.
The effort to bottle up information and end dissent comes as a member of the Trump administration warned that the heavy-handed tactics would eventually backfire.
“When small acts of bravery are stamped out by governments, big acts of bravery follow,” Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger said in a speech Monday, Bloomberg reported.
He noted the case of Li Wenliang, a doctor who was reprimanded by the Chinese government for warning about the coronavirus in late December.
Li died of the coronavirus in February, prompting an outpouring of grief in China, and Beijing later considered him a martyr.
“Anyone tempted to believe this was just a case of overzealous local police, take note: China’s central government aired a news story about Dr. Li’s ‘rumor-mongering,’” Pottinger said.
The Times report said three volunteers that were part of an online project to preserve censored stories about the pandemic, went missing last month and are believed to have been detained.
“I had previously told him: ‘You guys probably face some risk doing this project.’ But I didn’t know how much,” said Chen Kun, whose brother, Chen Mei, is among those who disappeared.
“I had said that maybe he would be summoned by the police for a talk, and they would ask him to take down the site,” he said. “I didn’t think it would be this serious.”
Chen said he has no information about his brother, but relatives of one of the other volunteers missing told him that their family member and his girlfriend had been detained over accusations they were “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
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Tusk Review
Tusk (2014)
Dir: Kevin Smith
Some artists follow an elusive muse, letting their unique worldview guide their work as they freely adapt source material. Stanley Kubrick always liked to take an existing novel or short story that was mediocre (he claimed Lolita was the only masterpiece he adapted) and try to improve it. Alfonso Cuarón was struck by the unique image of a woman cradling a newborn baby amidst a raging battle, and ended up building Children of Men (another adaptation) around this one scene. And then there’s Kevin Smith.
The prolific podcaster and sometimes-filmmaker was recently taken in by an online ad that promised free lodging to anyone willing to dress and act like a walrus for a few hours a day. While the ad turned out to be a well-perpetrated hoax, the seeds had been sown and an obsessed Smith put it to a popular vote on Twitter as to whether he should expand the story to a feature length film. After a resounding response of #WalrusYes hashtags, Smith put down his bong and went to work on making a film with perhaps one of the oddest origin stories in years.
The result is a mishmash of an obvious Human Centipede influence, the unchecked ramblings of a once-good writer seemingly filming his first draft, and one compelling performance amidst a sea of shit, with the worst of the lot being given by one of the biggest moviestars on the planet. To say it’s a mixed bag would be a gross understatement. It’s less a film and more a cinematic joke perpetrated on Smith’s waning fanbase and those who unwittingly cross its path. BUT, if you ever wanted to see a man tortured and surgically turned into a walrus, or witness a grown up (and awkward) Haley Joel Osment back on the silver screen then this is the movie for you. If you ever wondered if Kevin Smith could get any more self-absorbed or spiral deeper into the Ouroboros echo chamber of his own insular world while conceiving a movie about a podcaster while on a podcast, then this is the movie for you. I couldn’t stay away from this movie and my morbid curiousity was not rewarded. I have travelled the river Styx to emerge on the other side a changed man. My eyes are open and I am here to warn you about Tusk.
The story, such as it is, follows “rockstar podcaster” Wallace (a mustachioed Justin Long) who records his show with best friend Teddy (Haley Joel Osment). Wallace meets interesting and unique folks from all walks of life and returns to his studio to regale a giddy Teddy with his stories while they mock their subjects mercilessly. The name of the podcast – “The Not-See Party” (because Teddy and the listeners don’t see what Wallace does) – gives an indication of the kind of “humour” that’s to come. Upon learning of a “Star Wars Kid” type of video, Wallace decides to jet to Canada to meet this loser first hand so he can become further fodder for him and Teddy. After blowing off his inexplicably attractive and level-headed girlfriend Allison (Genesis Rodriguez) Wallace finds himself in Manitoba and discovers the kid has died, leaving him floundering for more meat for the grinder. Enter a cryptic note pinned on a community bulletin board that promises grand stories told by a man who’s lived many lives over – Howard Howe.
Howe is played by the distinctive character actor Michael Parks, a man experiencing a late-career resurgence after working with Quentin Tarantino (both Kill Bills) and Smith (on his previous film Red State). He’s a fascinating presence and does well with Smith’s wordy diatribes, providing a presence and spark to the film that was previously missing. Parks is far and away the best thing about Tusk, and for a while it becomes tolerable as he relates to Wallace a story of the happiest time in his life – when he was shipwrecked with a walrus that became his best friend, Mr. Tusk. The catch is, of course, that Howe is raving mad and looking to recreate that sacred bond betwixt man and walrus. After drugging the aloof and odious Wallace, he goes about systematically altering the crass podcaster (shades of masochism from Smith?) into a gruesome approximation of the flippered marine mammal. And that’s it, that’s the whole story.
That alone would fill about 45 minutes of screen time, so there’s a parallel plot of Allison and Teddy travelling to Canada to rescue Wallace after some frantic voicemails (why didn’t Wallace dial 911?). There’s numerous Canadian stereotypes encountered along the way, including Degrassi references, a misuse of the phrase “double-double” (it’s not, as Smith suggests, 8 creams and 1 sugar), and more “eh’s” and “aboot’s” than you can shake a hockey stick at. Some of the stuff is so broad it could be considered “maple-face” and that’s before the character of Guy Lapointe is introduced. Played by one of the biggest stars in the world (I won’t spoil the surprise), Lapointe is a French-Canadian detective that could be amusing but is instead head-shakingly awful. He gets long monologues that never end and is so dim and unfunny that Quebecers should be rioting in the streets about this sub-Forrest Gump parody.
Eventually all the characters cross paths in a climax that is (obviously) scored to Fleetwood Mac’s pulse-pounding hit “Tusk”. There’s little rising action leading up to it and eventually the movie just ends with a shrug, as it to say “I think that’s 90 minutes of material”. Let me assuage you of any need to see this movie: the walrus costume is cool in concept but it’s shown in bright light, ruining any mystique and draining Tusk of any true horror; everyone’s bad in the film except for Parks; characters act dumb; and there are some scenes that will give you a serious urge to check your phone, do the dishes, vacuum your house, or do anything other than watch what’s onscreen. A wannabe cult film cobbled together from components of other movies and assembled half-assedly and hastily, Tusk commits the most egregious sin of all for a movie with such an interesting logline – it’s boring. Remarkable only as an oddity that proves that sometimes the democratization of modern moviemaking is not a good thing, Tusk is to be avoided at all costs.
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Up to 19% of Spanish companies will be insolvent by end of year says Bank Of Spain
BySpanish Correspondent Pedro Martinez
Dec 1, 2020 global247news, spain news, Up to 19% of Spanish companies will be insolvent by end of year says Bank Of Spain
Up to 19% of Spanish companies will be insolvent by 2020, due to the economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, with one in ten also unviable, according to the worst-case scenario published today by the Bank of Spain.
Spanish companies have been among the most active in Europe in applying for state-backed credit and liquidity lines, but as in other European countries the focus is now switching towards solvency.
Earlier in November, the government approved an extension, until March, of restrictions on forced bankruptcies of companies affected by the pandemic to avoid the so-called cliff effect from the withdrawal of some support measures.
Businesses in the hospitality sector are particularly hard hit, with possibly as many as a third considered insolvent, the central bank said. Small businesses and motor vehicle companies are also under extreme financial pressure, it said.
Unviable companies – those expected to have negative results in the long term and therefore unable to meet debt payments – account for just under 5% of total company debt, with a similar weight in total employment, the Bank of Spain said.
But their fragility “is expected to have an impact on their creditors, logically including the financial sector”, the Bank of Spain’s chief economist Oscar Arce said.
The government last month approved an extension, until March, of restrictions on forced bankruptcies of companies affected by the pandemic to avoid the so-called cliff effect from the withdrawal of some support measures.
In line with this use of publicly guaranteed loans, the Bank of Spain sees a general increase in liquidity, particularly in the hospitality sector, and also an increase in the leverage of companies, but a decrease in the financing cost.
Financial expert Gunther Houseman although expects the figure to be even higher, based in Marbella, on the Costa del Sol he told Global247news: ” I feel they are being conservative with the figures, my prediction is 30% at the current rate, with many of those businesses being British and German owned whilst registered in Spain as SL companies, also on top of that I do not feel the Bank Of Spain have incorporated into their figures ‘sole trading businesses’
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Black, Orthodox Republican ponders run for S.F. mayor
Joshua Schuster, J Weekly, May 21, 1999
“San Francisco needs a mensch!”
With that in mind, Mark “Moshe” Hardie — a black, Orthodox Republican — is eyeing a run for mayor of San Francisco.
Claiming word-of-mouth pledges of $500,000 from the California Republican Party, Hardie says he’s in the perfect position to unseat Mayor Willie Brown.
He’s got ambition and guts. But without name recognition, and with Republican backing in a largely liberal city, can Hardie stand a chance in November’s election?
He thinks so.
“I’m the front runner,” said the 27-year-old Hardie.
An attorney and former special assistant to Gov. Pete Wilson, Hardie hasn’t tossed his hat in the ring just yet, and the $500,000 isn’t in his pockets.
He’s nervous about accepting the money, saying he won’t be “a pawn for either Republicans or Democrats. San Francisco is mostly Democratic and if I accept that money, it might short-circuit my campaign. I want people to contribute to me because they believe in me.”
Born into a poor family in Long Beach and currently living in San Francisco’s Marina district, Hardie says his identity covers nearly all the voter bases. He also speaks six languages, including Spanish and Afghani, holds a degree from Hastings College of the Law and says he’s community-minded.
Hardie dubs himself “a Kennedy Republican,” intent on melding the goodwill liberalism of John and Robert Kennedy with a faith in big business inspired by Ronald Reagan.
“Reaganomics and Camelot are two sides of the same coin,” Hardie said. “I believe that government should open the doors of opportunity to all, while demanding responsibility from all. Some people are left wing, some are right wing; but you need both to fly.”
Hardie recently formed an exploratory campaign committee to test the mayoral waters. At the same time, he’s also testing out how his personality and leadership ability float in the city.
And so far, he likes what he has found.
“I know the Jewish community is behind me. I know people in the Marina are behind me, as are people in the Tenderloin, Spanish-speaking people in the Mission and [those] in the Richmond District.”
Such a diverse network makes a powerful support block, he said. “A lot of people are saying Hardie is the one to lead us into the 21st century. I don’t owe a lot of political debts and that’s a good thing. I’m a fresh face, an outsider and a man of compassion.”
So where does Hardie stand on the issues? How will he help the homeless?
“We need to use free-market solutions. We should give the homeless more job training, teach them how to start a small business, help them fund the business and run the business. We need to form partnerships in the Financial District with homeless advocates to make this happen.”
How to get Muni, the city’s public transportation system, on track?
“Market Street from Civic Center to Embarcadero should be closed to cars and private vehicles. Also we need to offer cash incentives to Muni drivers who consistently perform on time, who are efficient and don’t show up late. I’m going to ride Muni every day and find a way to fix it.”
The mayor’s controversial record and low popularity?
“I’m trying to make it as a positive campaign. I’m not anti-Willie Brown. What’s on my agenda are ideas, not personal attacks.”
Hardie also has a handful of new issues to balance out his platform. For starters, he wants to turn San Francisco into the world’s first “cyber city,” putting a free computer and a free e-mail account in every home.
To fund those services, Hardie wants to partner with major Silicon Valley corporations, which would donate computers and e-mail services in return for an automatic client base for advertising and software sales.
To round out the cyber city, Hardie wants to begin by installing 40 public Internet machines, set in kiosks funded by private companies.
He also wants to transform the blighted Tenderloin District, crushing crime, adding housing and upscale shops, and giving the neighborhood a positive new name.
Perhaps, it could be renamed the “Kennedy District,” he suggested. “I want to change the whole ethos of the Tenderloin and associate it with Camelot rather than crime.”
In an embrace of Judaism, Hardie pledges to make Jerusalem the primary sister city of San Francisco. He wants to open a trade office with Jerusalem and lead a delegation of local business and technology leaders to invest in Israel.
The kippah-wearing Hardie, who converted to Judaism in 1995, said his religion drives him to help others. “Being a Jew means being compassionate. My ideas aren’t based solely on intellect; I want to create change based on compassion, sensitivity and empathy.”
In a sure sign that Hardie is prepared to take his run at the mayor’s seat seriously, he’s already honed his 30-second agenda summary, which President Clinton said every politician must perfect.
He is steadfastly upbeat. “I am a young person focused on the future and breathing new life into San Francisco. Similar to Israel, this city should be a light unto the nation.
“It’s not just about me, it’s about a movement,” he said. “We need to bring a sense of accomplishment to the city of San Francisco.”
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